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1Clinical Professor of Urology, Director, Men's Health, Clinical lead, Gender Affirming Surgery Program, Department of Urology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven CT 06511, USA. (Email: Stanton.honig@yale.edu).
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|October 31, 2017
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