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What is More Bizarre: The Transsexual or Transsexual Politics?

Men Trapped In Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism. By Anne A. Lawrence, New York Springer, 2013. 242 pp. $129 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-4614-5181-5

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Levine, S.B. What is More Bizarre: The Transsexual or Transsexual Politics?. Sex Roles 70, 158–160 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-013-0341-9

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