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Being Single Is Now a Disability

According to the Telegraph, the World Health Organization will change its definition of disabilities to classify people without a sexual partner as “infertile.” The controversial new classifications will make it so that heterosexual single men and women, as well as gay men and women who are seeking in vitro fertilization to have a child, will receive the same priority as couples. This could make access to public funds for IVF available to all.

The move to extend the definition of a disability to include social conditions has, predictably, angered some who consider it overreach by a medical organization that sets global...


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