Prepubescent Transgender Children: What We Do and Do Not Know

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 155-156.e3

  Olson, Kristina R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; EDITORIAL; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; TRANSGENDERISM; AGE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENDER; TRANSSEXUALISM;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84960328181     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: 15275418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.11.015     Document Type: Editorial

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