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Transgender Persons

"Transgender Persons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Persons having a sense of persistent identification with, and expression of, gender-coded behaviors not typically associated with one's anatomical sex at birth, with or without a desire to undergo SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transgender Persons" by people in this website by year, and whether "Transgender Persons" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 83 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2022
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