Psychiatric comorbidity of gender identity disorders: a survey among Dutch psychiatrists.

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  title={Psychiatric comorbidity of gender identity disorders: a survey among Dutch psychiatrists.},
  author={Joost {\`a} Campo and Henk Nijman and Harald Merckelbach and Catharine Evers},
  journal={The American journal of psychiatry},
  year={2003},
  volume={160 7},
  pages={
          1332-6
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6417186}
}
There is little consensus, at least among Dutch psychiatrists, about diagnostic features of gender identity disorder or about the minimum age at which sex reassignment therapy is a safe option, which underline the need for more specific diagnostic rules in this area.
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