"This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a disorder of ‘assumption’—the notion that a person’s maleness or femaleness is determined by feelings or behavior rather than by anatomy."
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"Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution", Wall Street Journal (May 13, 2016 [June 12, 2014]). Quoted in the Congressional Record, vol. 162, no. 89 (June 7, 2016)
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