Transcending and transgendering: Male-to-female transsexuals, dichotomy, and diversity

Current Concepts in Transgender Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 63-96

  Bolin, Anne ^a  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203775134-16     Document Type: Chapter

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