Gatekeeping gender: Some features of the use of hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients

Discourse and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 785-812

  Speer, Susan A ^a   Parsons, Ceri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender identity; Hypothetical questions; Medical interaction; Psychiatry; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750242119     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926506068433     Document Type: Article

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