Surviving a gender-variant childhood: The views of transgender adults on the needs of gender-variant children and their parents

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 241-263

  Riley, Elizabeth Anne ^a   Clemson, Lindy ^a   Sitharthan, Gomathi ^a   Diamond, Milton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSSEXUALISM; TRANSSEXUALITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84876414036     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2011.628439     Document Type: Article

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