By Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW, and Stephanie Brill What Is Transgender? Everyone has a gender identity. Gender identity is our internal sense of being male or female. For most people, our basic awareness that we are male or female matches our physical body. When we're...
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Teens Are Coming Out at Earlier Ages
By Eun Kyung Kim Introduction Chris Krug had thought she was a lesbian from the time she was 8, but she felt certain after developing a serious crush on her best friend.She was in the fifth grade at the time.Krug formally came out a year later, as she started...
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