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Reaffirming Autonomy of Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents document

GATE’s paper stresses the role that States play in ensuring trans and gender diverse youth’s access to bodily autonomy, gender-affirming healthcare and legal gender recognition.

  • Published
  • 17 July 2023
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This paper analyzes and characterizes how trans youth’s access to autonomy and mental and physical integrity are compromised. It also discusses how freedom of gender expression and access to legal recognition of gender identity and gender-affirming procedures have been endangered. This paper will cover research based on the framework and premise of depathologization and human rights.