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The term "[[transgender]]" is multi-faceted and complex, especially where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. While often the best way to find out how [[person|people]] identify themselves is to ask them, not all persons who might be thought of as falling under the transgender 'umbrella' identify as such.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Sally Hines|editor2=Tam Sanger|date=2010|title=Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UrVB2H5jDswC|isbn=978-0-415-99930-4|publisher=Routledge|page=50}}</ref> ''Transgender'' can also be distinguished from ''[[intersex]]'', a term for people born with physical sex characteristics "that do not fit typical binary notions of [[male]] or [[female]] bodies".<ref name="unfe-fact">{{Cite web| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | publisher = United Nations [[Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights]] | title = Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex| date = 2015| url = https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf | access-date = June 8, 2016 }}</ref>