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Title: Saitama public school board conducts Japan's first survey of transgendered stude
Post by: Shana A on February 25, 2010, 07:58:15 AM
Saitama public school board conducts Japan's first survey of transgendered students

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100225p2a00m0na006000c.html (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100225p2a00m0na006000c.html)

SAITAMA -- More than 10 children in Saitama Prefecture's public schools have Gender Identity Disorder, a recent survey of students in primary school through high school revealed Thursday.

The emergency survey was undertaken after a second grade elementary school boy was recently diagnosed with the condition. Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a psychiatric classification for people who feel their emotional genders are different from their physical genders.