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Counseling aimed at changing someone’s gender identity, sometimes known as conversion therapy, doesn’t work and can be extremely harmful. The belief that someone’s gender identity can be changed through therapy runs counter to the overwhelming consensus in the medical com...

Many transgender people need to deal with physical and mental health problems because of widespread discrimination and stigma. Transgender children may experience rejection or even emotional or physical abuse at home, at school, or in their communities. But these conditions are not caused

Some people's gender fluctuates over time.

People whose gender is not male or female may use many different terms to describe themselves. One term that some people use is non-binary, which is used because the gender binary refers to the two categor...

Some people think that determining who is male or female at birth is a simple matter of checking the baby's external anatomy, but there's actually a lot more to it.

Every year, an estimated one in 2,000 babies are born with a set of characteristics that can't easil...

Most of us get confused between the two.

Gender Identity refers to your internal knowledge of your own gender- that is you know whether you are a man, or a woman, or another gender.

Sexual Orientation has to do with whom you are

Look gender non-conforming may or may not be transgender. Example: A woman raised and identified as a woman presents themselves in ways that might be considered masculine i.e Tomboy.

The same way transgenders may or may not be gender non-confirming ...

Many of us use the two above words interchangeably without knowing that both the terms are different from each other.

Intersex people have their reproductive anatomy or genes that don't fit typical definitions of male or female which is often discovered at ...

• People can realize this at any age on the basis of their earlier memories, experiences, or they just know it.
•  The topic of gender identity is associated with a lot of social stigmas, fear, and discrimination, and the fear of non-acceptance by their loved ones.

For example, some people are born with XY chromosomes but have female genitals and secondary sex characteristics.

Others might have XX chromosomes but no uterus, or might have external anatomy that doesn't appear clearly male or female.

So in such co...