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Incidence and Sex Ratio of Transsexualism in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jan Wålinder*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Centre, University of Göteborg, St. Jorgen's Hospital, s-422 03 Hisings Backa, Sweden

Extract

The difficulty in calculating the incidence and prevalence of transsexualism is obvious. Those figures which can be arrived at are always minimal values, and a group of persons with transsexual symptomatology, which are most difficult to assess, will always elude the calculations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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