Current management of gender identity disorder in childhood and adolescence: Guidelines, barriers and areas of controversy

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-73

  Shumer, Daniel E ^a   Spack, Norman P ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; children; gender identity disorder; transgender

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; STEROID;

ADOLESCENCE; COMORBIDITY; CONSENSUS; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; ROLE PLAYING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBERTY; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84871927709     PISSN: 1752296X     EISSN: 17522978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MED.0b013e32835c711e     Document Type: Review

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