Should requests for donor insemination on social grounds be expanded to transsexuals?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-286

  Baetens, Patricia ^a   Camus, C ^a   Devroey, P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Counselling; Donor insemination; Female to male transsexuals with a female partner; Gender identity disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 0037899110     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61846-9     Document Type: Article

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