Controversies in gender diagnoses

LGBT Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-14

  Drescher, Jack ^a  

^a WILLIAM ALANSON WHITE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; DSM; gender dysphoria; gender identity; gender identity disorder; gender incongruence; ICD; transgender; transsexual

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032102868     PISSN: 23258292     EISSN: 23258306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lgbt.2013.1500     Document Type: Review

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