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Transgender EuroStudy – Legal Survey and Focus ... - ILGA Europe

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<strong>Transgender</strong> <strong>EuroStudy</strong>:<br />

<strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Survey</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Focus</strong> on the<br />

<strong>Transgender</strong> Experience of Health Care<br />

children do appear to have an instinctive idea of male <strong>and</strong> female, <strong>and</strong> typically prefer to model their<br />

behaviour after that of the sex they identify with.<br />

Gender variant: A term used for anyone whose gender ‘varies’ from normative gender identity <strong>and</strong><br />

roles of the gender assigned at birth.<br />

LGBT: Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual <strong>and</strong> transgender.<br />

MTF: Male-to-female, most commonly used to refer to a male-to-female trans person (transsexual or<br />

transgender woman). Someone who was assigned male at birth who identifies as female; a trans<br />

woman.<br />

Transition: The process of beginning to live full-time as the opposite sex <strong>and</strong> changing the body,<br />

through hormones <strong>and</strong> surgery.

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