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## Additional Resources
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* [American Psychological Association](https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender)
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* **American Psychological Association** pamphlet on transgender issues
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* Affirms psychological consensus - that transgender people **are valid**, have **existed throughout history**, are **subject to discrimination**, and that transness is **not a mental disorder**.
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* [American Psychological Association 08](https://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-gender-identity.pdf)
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* **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.
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* [American Psychological Association 14](https://www.apa.org/about/policy/orientation-diversity)
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* **Identical to the above**, essentially, except pertaining to **trans and gender-nonconforming youth**.
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* [American Psychological Association Policy](https://www.apa.org/about/policy/booklet.pdf)
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* **Booklet on LGBTQ issues** from the **American Psychological Association**, outlining their **policy and attitudes** towards aforementioned communities.
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* **Expressly positive**.
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* [NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/)
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* 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**.
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* [American Psychoanalytic Association 12](http://www.apsa.org/content/2012-position-statement-attempts-change-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-or-gender)
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* 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**.
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* [Time: Haynes 19](https://time.com/5596845/world-health-organization-transgender-identity/)
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* The **World Health Organization** recently stopped classifying **transness** as a **mental disorder**.
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* [[Multiple Sources] 17](https://www.babcp.com/files/About/Press/Memorandum-of-Understanding-on-Conversion-Therapy-in-the-UK.pdf)
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* Multilateral **condemnation** of ‘conversion therapy’ from **essentially every medical institution in the United Kingdom**, with reasons provided.
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* [United Nations](https://www.unfe.org/about/)
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* Transphobia? Nah
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* [Williams Institute 16](https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Adults-US-Aug-2016.pdf)
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* Estimates a transgender population of around 0.6%, or 1.4 million people, in the United States
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* This is double the amount estimated by a 2011 study (0.3%) which had limited data to work with
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