2011 The Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare removes dual-role transvestism, fetishism, fetishistic transvestism, sadomasochism and multiple disorders of sexual preference from its illness classification. LGBT rights-related events in the 2000s Dismissal of editor-in-chief Johanna Korhonen LGBT rights in Finnish worklife drew heavy attention in the media in late September 2008, when Finnish journalist Johanna Korhonen, living in a registered partnership with a woman, was dismissed by Alma Media from the position of editor-in-chief for Lapin Kansa, a newspaper owned by Alma Media, before she even started working. According to Alma Media CEO Kai Telanne, the cause of dismissal was lack of trust, caused by Korhonen not mentioning her spouse's candidacy in the 2008 municipal elections — i.e., Telanne said it was a policy within Alma Media for editor-in-chief applicants to disclose all their political connections. However, Korhonen claimed that the real cause was that the company found out about her sexual orientation after the recruitment process, where she simply said she had a spouse and two children, not mentioning her spouse's sex. Arto Nieminen, the spokesman for the Union of Journalists in Finland, said he had never heard of people, applying to become editors-in-chiefs for Alma Media newspapers, being asked about the political activity of their spouses. Korhonen also alleged that Alma Media offered her €100,000 for not disclosing the cause of dismissal. Telanne denied her allegation, saying the sum was a severance payment not paid in reward for falling silent for the cause. Korhonen filed a lawsuit at Helsinki District Court against Alma Media for the dismissal she deemed unlawful. In June 2009, Korhonen lost the case and was required to pay €8,000 in court costs, but she appealed the decision to Helsinki Court of Appeals, which judged the case in favor of Korhonen awarding her a total of €80,400 for wrongful termination. Two months later, on May 17, Alma Media requested a leave to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. On February 1, 2011, the Supreme Court refused to grant the leave to appeal, determining the case in Korhonen's favor and forcing Alma Media to pay Korhonen the €80,400. Sex reassignment of former Vicar Marja-Sisko Aalto On November 11, 2008, the then-Vicar of Imatra parish Olli-Veikko Aalto (now Marja-Sisko Aalto) told to the media that she is a trans woman and will go through sex reassignment therapy. This caused a great controversy in the Church.