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133 5 Views of the clinic: non-binary perceptions and experiences of general healthcare services Those who identify ‘beside’ the gender binary will still be situated within it by others whose worldviews are bounded by the discourse of binary gender, such that it is impossible to escape this discursive framework altogether. (Sanger, 2008: 50) Introduction This and the following chapter will focus on non-binary perceptions of healthcare in the UK. In this chapter, I address primary care services for the most part (with some mention of secondary care
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