First China transgender clinic deals with ‘visitors’ as it embraces country’s 4 million people with body dissatisfaction

For China’s transgender population of four million – and those with empathy for them – they are people whose souls are trapped in the wrong body. At the country’s first transgender clinic in Beijing, they are not seen as patients. The term transgender describes people whose internal sense of being male, female, neither, or both, does not match with their assigned sex at birth.