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## Medical Consensus
An incomplete list of the reputable scientific & social organizations which affirm the validity of transgender people (that transness is not an illness, that trans people are deserving of respect and equal rights, etc). This also serves as a list of the institutions which recognize the difference between sex and gender.
* American Psychological Association
* American Medical Association
* American Psychoanalytic Association
* Human Rights Campaign
* American Academy of Pediatrics
* American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians
* Royal College of Psychiatrists
* United Nations
* United Kingdom’s National Health Service
The following organizations have also made public statements expressing support for transgender people, the details and citations of which are compiled by [Transcsend Legal](https://transcendlegal.org/medical-organization-statements)
* American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* American Academy of Family Physicians
* American Academy of Nursing
* American College of Nurse-Midwives
* American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
* American College of Physicians
* American Counseling Association
* American Osteopathic Association
* American Psychiatric Association
* American Public Health Association
* Endocrine Society
* National Association of Social Workers
* National Commission on Correctional Health Care
* World Medical Association
READ MORE:
* [American Psychological association](https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender)
* [World Health Organization](https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/)
* [Stanford Medical](https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-sex-and-gender-which-are-not-the-same-thing-influence-our-health.html)
* [American Pediatrics Association](https://www.apnews.com/2a67da6515aa48e68e56cd97817b097a)
* [National Institutes of Health](https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2016/05/sex-gender)
* [Canadian Institute of Health Research](http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html)
* [Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/)
* [American Psychiatric Association](https://www.thetaskforce.org/american-psychiatric-association-officially-supports-equality-in-transgender-health/)
* [American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry](https://www.aacap.org/aacap/families_and_youth/facts_for_families/fff-guide/transgender-and-gender-diverse-youth-122.aspx)