A Female Monozygotic Twin Pair Discordant for Transsexualism
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 161 (6) , 852-854
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.161.6.852
Abstract
A 13-year-old girl was referred because of sexual identity problems. There was no mental illness or neurological abnormalities. As her twin sister had no sexual identity problems, it appears that transsexualism is not transmitted by a simple genetic mechanism.Keywords
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