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Who do you turn to first when gender services let you down?
Thank you. I am keeping the answers to myself until Monday morning, so that nobody's vote nudges anybody else's. Come back then and I will show you the whole picture.
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How do you know if you are trans?
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I always knew I was a boy. It took decades to live it.
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Online hate against trans people is not acceptable
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Farah, recently separated, sat her two young children down to say she was their mum now, and discovered that her six-year-old cared most about the bedtime voices.
Oregon retreats from enforcing landmark trans health care coverage mandate
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An autistic man's question about trans care and who it's for
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She already knows who she is. Her mum just needed to hear that was enough.
Her daughter already knew who she was. What her mum needed was someone to tell her that loving her child completely, and without condition, was exactly the right thing to do.
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