Nonmedical transitioning, or social transitioning, may involve changing a person’s name or appearance. People turning into donkeys in The Adventures of Pinocchio. In the original story, it takes several days for the first part of the change (the ears) to occur. Risman, B. J., & Davis, G. (2013). From Sex Roles to Gender Structure. Current Sociology Review, 61(5–6), 733–755. The author accepts the right of the individual to hold his/her (or whatever) own political, religious and social views, and there is no intention to deliberately offend anyone.

The protagonist of Shadow of the Colossus gradually becomes battle-worn as he kills the Colossi. There is, eventually, an explanation for this. The "artifact transformations" — some artifacts gradually transform their users into "the proper owner" image — physically, mentally or both. I feel like my gender is so amorphous and hard to hold and describe even. It’s been important to find words for it, to find the outlines of it, to see the shape of it, but it’s not something that I think about as who I am, because I’m more than just that.” For a doctor to clinically diagnose an adolescent or adult individual with gender dysphoria, a person must have experienced at least two of the following conditions, for a minimum of 6 months: EIGE. (2017). Gender Equality Index 2017. Measuring gender equality in the European Union 2005–2015. Brussels. Retrieved March 30, 2019, from https://eige.europa.eu/publications/gender-equality-index-2017-measuring-gender-equality-european-union-2005-2015-report

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