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Here nowWhat does it actually mean to be transgender?
Being transgender means that your gender, who you know yourself to be, is different from the sex you were marked as at birth. A trans woman is a woman, a trans man is a man, and some trans people are non-binary, meaning neither or both or something else. It is not an illness or a phase, and trans people have existed across cultures and through recorded history… The full answer →
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Meet Dr Helen Webberley
Thirty years of medicine. Eight years in public. A regulator faced down and beaten at the High Court.
“The MPT’s thinking was confused, clearly wrong in places, and it omitted reference to important evidence.”Mr Justice Jay, [2023] EWHC 734
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