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Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 12:39:37 -0400
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+## Medical Consensus
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+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.
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+*   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
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+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)
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+*   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
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+READ MORE:
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+* [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)