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Transsexualism in female monozygotic twins: a case report.

The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry - 1 Oct 2000

Sadeghi M, Fakhrai A

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OBJECTIVE: A case report is presented of a gender identity disorder involving a pair of female monozygotic twins who requested sex reassignment. As far as we know, this case is the first in psychiatric literature and supports a genetic aetiology of this disorder. CLINICAL PICTURE: The patients were two 18-year-old female monozygotic twins who had showed symptoms of transsexualism since early childhood. They had...

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PMID: 11037375
DOI: 10.1080/j.1440-1614.2000.00804.x

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