The homosexual and transgendered individual: Deviant or part of the normal human continuum?

Gender Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 280-282

  Legato, Marianne J ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; GENDER IDENTITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 79960979171     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: 18787398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2011.06.004     Document Type: Editorial

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