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Ken Pang, Senior Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader, Transgender Health Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise

Gender clinics provide multidisciplinary care that helps trans people to explore and affirm their gender identity.

The number of adolescents referred to gender clinics has increased worldwide in recent years, especially among those who were assigned female at birth.

This has prompted claims that “social contagion” is driving young people – and in particular, teenagers who were assigned female at birth – to identify as trans and seek medical care.

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