Transgender In America

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There are 700,000 transgender people in America and growing but majorities of the transgender are young. The definition of a transgender is “denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender”. There are people 18 years old and younger getting sex changes and it seems like it is become the new trend in youth. The youth are starting to think that getting your gender changed when you’re young is that right thing to do if you’re homosexual. Now getting your gender changed young is bad and the legal age to change your gender should be raised to

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