Psychological evaluation and medical treatment of transgender youth in an interdisciplinary "gender management service" (GeMS) in a major pediatric center

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-336

  Edwards Leeper, Laura ^a   Spack, Norman P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; gender identity; gender identity disorder; gender identity disorder of adolescence; gender identity disorder of childhood; gender variance; pubertal suspension; transgender; transsexual; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; DELAYED PUBERTY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BOSTON; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, DELAYED; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84859597938     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2012.653302     Document Type: Article

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