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Nearly 10% of youth in one urban school district identify as gender-diverse, new study finds

  • Written by Kacie Kidd, Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
imageMany surveys aren't designed in a way that captures the true diversity of gender identification.Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-NC-ND

It seems that more and more teens are identifying as transgender, gender-fluid or nonbinary.

But because linguistic and cultural norms are always evolving, it’s been challenging to pin down an...

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