Psychological well-being and level of outness in a population of male-to-female transsexual women attending a national transgender conference

International Journal of Transgenderism

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 230-240

  Strain, Jeffrey D ^a   Shuff, I Michael ^b  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Outness; Psychological well being; Transsexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955407857     PISSN: 15532739     EISSN: 14344599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15532739.2010.544231     Document Type: Article

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