: Recent years have seen an "explosion" of media coverage (e.g., Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner), which has increased public awareness but also highlighted a gap between "transnormative" media depictions and the lived reality of most TGD people.
The community faces unique "minority stress" stemming from systemic stigma.
Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals experience their identity in diverse ways, often tracing feelings of "not fitting in" back to their earliest memories.

