Child, Family, and Community Transformations: Findings from Interviews with Mothers of Transgender Girls

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 354-379

  Kuvalanka, Katherine A ^a   Weiner, Judith L ^a   Mahan, Derek ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GLBTQ family issues; parenting; qualitative research; transgender children

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905397535     PISSN: 1550428X     EISSN: 15504298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1550428X.2013.834529     Document Type: Article

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