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 Both now read “male” or “M.” At the time of trial, Mr. Adams had not yet changed the sex listed on his U.S. passport but testified he could “very easily go get that changed” by presenting a letter from his physician stating he was being clinically treated for gender transition.

The transition process, according to Mr. Adams, took “the better part of a year.” At trial, he described steps in his medical and social transition as a “rigorous process” through which “medical providers, me, and my parents [agreed] that this was the right course of action.” Mr. Adams said transitioning led to “the happiest moments of my life,” “finally figuring out who I was,” and being “able to live with myself again.” Mr. Adams’s course of treatment—gender transition—also reflects the “accepted standard of care for transgender persons suffering from gender dysphoria.” Modern medical consensus establishes that “forc[ing]