Legal advocacy on behalf of transgender and gender nonconforming youth

Social Work Practice with Transgender and Gender Variant Youth: Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 139-162

  Thaler, Cole ^a   Bermudez, Flor ^a   Sommer, Susan ^a  

^a Lambda Legal   (United States)

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EID: 84969856981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203870907-15     Document Type: Chapter

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