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Case study: sex reassignment in a teenage girl
1Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Abstract:
The etiology of gender identity is explored through the case history of a teenager with intersex raised without stigmatization as a girl but who declared himself male at age 14 years. Psychological ramifications of such complex medical anomalies as ambiguous genitalia demand a role for child psychiatry.