By Miriam Stoppard Undoubtedly, we’re seeing an increase in the number of people who identify as transgender and a new study led by UCL researchers confirms this. The numbers may not look big but they’re significant all the same. Carrying out the first large-scale study in Britain to estimate the number of people whose gender identity is different from their sex assigned at birth (gender dysphoria), the researchers scanned anonymous data from seven million people aged 10 to 99 years old between 2000 and 2018. They picked up codes suggesting patients had spoken to their GP about gender dysphor…