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Andre Van Mol¹, Michael K Laidlaw¹, Miriam Grossman¹

¹Family Practice, Dignity Health Medical Group North State, Redding, Calif. (Van Mol); Michael K. Laidlaw, M.D., Inc., Rocklin, Calif. (Laidlaw); Miriam Grossman, M.D., Psychiatry, New York (Grossman); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (McHugh).

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Bisexual Gay Gender Dysphoria Gender Incongruence Gender-Affirming Treatments Lesbian Transgender Transgender (LGBT) Issues

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