found: Work cat: Transgender migrations : the bodies, borders, and politics of transition, 2012.
found: Trans bodies, trans selves : a resource for the transgender community, 2014:page 620 ("Transition: The process one goes through to discover and/or affirm their gender identity. This can, but does not always, include taking hormones, having surgeries, or going through therapy.")
found: The SAGE encyclopedia of LGBTQ studies, 2016:page 847 ("Transitioning is the process that transgender (or trans) individuals go through in living as the gender with which they identify rather than the sex assigned to them at birth.")
found: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trans* (But Were Afraid to Ask), 2019:page 17 ("Q: What is gender transition (or, transition)? A: This is the process of changing one's gender presentation and expression from the one assigned at birth. Some people have changed, or are in the process of changing, their physical bodies to conform to their internal sense of gender identity. For others, this is purely a social process without medical intervention. The types of medical treatment a person receives (including none at all) do not determine whether or not a person is transgender.")
found: Oxford English Dictionary, viewed online December 2, 2019:definition of transition ("The process by which a transgender or transsexual person comes to live as the sex or gender with which that person identifies. Also more fully gender transition or (esp. in early use) sex transition. Transition may involve a range of steps, including changing one's name or preferred pronouns, undergoing hormone therapy, or surgery.")
found: GLAAD Media Reference Guide, viewed online December 2, 2019:definition of Transition ("Altering one's birth sex is not a one-step procedure; it is a complex process that occurs over a long period of time. Transition can include some or all of the following personal, medical, and legal steps: telling one's family, friends, and co-workers; using a different name and new pronouns; dressing differently; changing one's name and/or sex on legal documents; hormone therapy; and possibly (though not always) one or more types of surgery. The exact steps involved in transition vary from person to person. Avoid the phrase 'sex change'.") - https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender found: AAMC website, viewed Jan. 27, 2023("Gender-affirming care, as defined by the World Health Organization, encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual's gender identity when it conflicts with the gender they were assigned at birth; the interventions fall along a continuum as well, from counseling to changes in social expression to medications, such as hormone therapy")
