A gender identity interview for children

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K J Zucker1, S J Bradley, C B Sullivan

  • 1Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Journal of Personality Assessment
|December 1, 1993
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