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TRANSGENDER PEOPLE: Often referred to as ‘trans’ people, transgender individuals have an assigned sex at birth that differs from their current gender identity or expression. Often this is described as an incongruence or discordance between an individual’s personal sense of their own gender (their gender identity) and the sex assigned to them at birth (birth-assigned sex). This experience may be accompanied by discomfort, anxiety or distress; often called gender dysphoria.
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