"i am my own gender": Resilience strategies of trans youth

Journal of Counseling and Development

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 208-218

  Singh, Anneliese A ^a   Meng, Sarah E ^b   Hansen, Anthony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender identity; phenomenology; qualitative; resilience; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896759354     PISSN: 07489633     EISSN: 15566676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2014.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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