Transgender transitioning and change of self-reported sexual orientation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Auer, Matthias K ^a   Fuss, Johannes ^b   Höhne, Nina ^a   Stalla, Günter K ^a   Sievers, Caroline ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX REASSIGNMENT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; TRANSGENDER; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; BISEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84907822190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110016     Document Type: Article

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