ignored by health services and the medical industry.

   Rather than devising new ways to cope with changing social norms,
   transgender people are often shoehorned into inappropriate boxes
   instead.
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   “You can register as male or female, but you can still only choose
   between these two options – you can’t say if you are transgender or
   non-binary,” explains Kamilla Kamaruddin, a doctor who works for the
   National Health Service (NHS) and transgender woman. “So that’s quite
   difficult.”
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   larger muscles, beards and body hair, as well as deep voices – and even
   sometimes male-pattern baldness – while transgender women often take
   oestrogen and a drug that blocks the action of their natural
   testosterone, if they are still producing it. “Puberty blockers” are
   also sometimes prescribed to children to halt the progress of unwanted
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   in the preceding year alone. For years, it was illegal for doctors to
   refuse care following protections introduced by the Obama
   administration. But US President Donald Trump recently reversed them,
   leading to growing concern about how this might affect transgender
   people.
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   being treated for prostate cancer in the UK, but each oncologist will
   probably only see one or two cases themselves – and you can’t learn
   much about what works and what doesn’t, unless you view their data as a
   group. “We need to work together,” she says.