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Transgender people: health at the margins of society [1]

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Date: 2016-07-23

Transgender people (often called trans people) experience a degree of gender incongruence;1 that is, a discordance between their personal sense of their own gender (their gender identity) and the sex assigned to them at birth.2 Panel 1 defines some key terms related to gender identity.

The terms gender identity and gender incongruence refer to a person's own experience of who they are, and are not the same as sexual orientation, which is about to whom a person is attracted. A transgender man may be attracted to women (including, perhaps, transgender women), in which case he may identify as a heterosexual transgender man. Alternatively, he may be attracted to men (including, perhaps, transgender men), in which case his sexual identity may be as a homosexual or gay man. Furthermore, being transgender is not the same as being intersex. Intersex people develop atypically in regard to some or all aspects of their biological sex, whereas transgender people identify in a way that does not match their assigned sex (panel 2).

In preparing this article we accessed academic papers and documentation published by international agencies, governments and associated institutions, and community-based organisations. We searched various databases, including Google and Google Scholar databases. We also used relevant list serves and journal email alerts to ensure that up-to-date documentation was included. The peer review process, which proceeded by way of several steps, included a consultation meeting in Beijing in November, 2013, attended by, among others, transgender community leaders from several countries.

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[1] Url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673616006838

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