In the U.S., there is an element of social contagion in play going on with young people who are seeking out care in gender centers, she says. In this transgender clinic, you would never refer to people as boys or girls or men or women. You would say assigned female at birth. That's transphobic to do so. Even for me, I still take pause in using the phrase adolescent girls because when you work in a place like this, you don't say that.

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