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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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World Health Organization considers major change to transgender status

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, July 31, 2016

World Health Organization considers major change to transgender status
- The World Health Organization is considering changing the way it classifies transgender identity following calls from researchers and advocates to ...

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