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New research investigates “gender euphoria” and its positive impacts on transgender people.

Feelings of gender euphoria can be tied to the fulfillment of basic psychological needs.

Rising anti-trans stigma and discrimination may reduce TGD people's ability to experience gender euphoria.

This post was co-authored by Valentine Webster, Mitacs Intern at Clinical Addictions Research and Equity Laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University

About 0.3 to 0.6 percent of adults identify as transgender or gender-diverse (TGD) in the United States and Canada (TGD; Statistics Canada, 2021; Herman et al., 2022). TGD refers to those whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth (SAAB). Some examples of TGD identities are transgender, non-binary, agender, and genderflui

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