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+## Additional Resources
+
+*   [American Psychological Association](https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender)
+    *   **American Psychological Association** pamphlet on transgender issues
+    *   Affirms psychological consensus - that transgender people **are valid**, have **existed throughout history**, are **subject to discrimination**, and that transness is **not a mental disorder**.
+*   [American Psychological Association 08](https://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-gender-identity.pdf)
+    *   **Gender Identity Resolution** which expands upon the premises listed in the annotation above and supports total equality for transgender people - affirmation of the **institutional legitimacy of transness** in psychology.
+*   [American Psychological Association 14](https://www.apa.org/about/policy/orientation-diversity)
+    *   **Identical to the above**, essentially, except pertaining to **trans and gender-nonconforming youth**.
+*   [American Psychological Association Policy](https://www.apa.org/about/policy/booklet.pdf)
+    *   **Booklet on LGBTQ issues** from the **American Psychological Association**, outlining their **policy and attitudes** towards aforementioned communities.
+    *   **Expressly positive**.
+*   [NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/)
+    *   The UK’s **National Health Service** report on **gender dysphoria**, which affirms the **validity of trans people** and discusses ways in which **gender dysphoria** can be alleviated, the best of which is said to often be **social and physical transition**.
+*   [American Psychoanalytic Association 12](http://www.apsa.org/content/2012-position-statement-attempts-change-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-or-gender)
+    *   The **American Psychoanalytic Association’s** statement on gender identity, in which **transness is validated**, social stigma against transgender people is cited as a serious cause of harm and ‘**reparative therapy**’ - attempts to suppress one’s transness and force them to live as the gender they were assigned at birth - **is medically invalid**.
+*   [Time: Haynes 19](https://time.com/5596845/world-health-organization-transgender-identity/)
+    *   The **World Health Organization** recently stopped classifying **transness** as a **mental disorder**.
+*   [[Multiple Sources] 17](https://www.babcp.com/files/About/Press/Memorandum-of-Understanding-on-Conversion-Therapy-in-the-UK.pdf)
+    *   Multilateral **condemnation** of ‘conversion therapy’ from **essentially every medical institution in the United Kingdom**, with reasons provided.
+*   [United Nations](https://www.unfe.org/about/)
+    *   Transphobia? Nah