Psychopathological profiles in transsexuals and the challenge of their special status among the sexes.

OBJECTIVE:Investigating psychopathological profiles of transsexuals raises a very basic methodological question: are control groups, which represent the biological or the phenotypic sex, most suited for an optimal evaluation of psychopathology of transsexuals? METHOD:Male-to-female (MtF) (n=52) and...

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Main Authors: Matthias K Auer, Nina Höhne, María Ángeles Bazarra-Castro, Hildegard Pfister, Johannes Fuss, Günter K Stalla, Caroline Sievers, Marcus Ising
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3808537?pdf=render