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Additional Resources

  • American Psychological Association
    • 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
    • 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
    • Identical to the above, essentially, except pertaining to trans and gender-nonconforming youth.
  • American Psychological Association Policy
    • Booklet on LGBTQ issues from the American Psychological Association, outlining their policy and attitudes towards aforementioned communities.
    • Expressly positive.
  • NHS
    • 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
    • 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
    • The World Health Organization recently stopped classifying transness as a mental disorder.
  • [Multiple Sources] 17
    • Multilateral condemnation of ‘conversion therapy’ from essentially every medical institution in the United Kingdom, with reasons provided.
  • United Nations
    • Transphobia? Nah
  • Williams Institute 16
    • Estimates a transgender population of around 0.6%, or 1.4 million people, in the United States
    • This is double the amount estimated by a 2011 study (0.3%) which had limited data to work with