Health and social services for male-to-female transgender persons of color in San Francisco

International Journal of Transgenderism

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 5-19

  Nemoto, Tooru ^a   Operario, Don ^a   Keatley, JoAnne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug use; Gender transition; Mental health; Services utilization; Transgender

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; RACISM; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644613794     PISSN: 15532739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J485v08n02_02     Document Type: Review

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