Intersex: Definition, examples, gender stability, and the case against merging with transsexualism

Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 235-260

  Sandberg, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203822579     Document Type: Chapter

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