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Concerns Regarding Gender Change to Male in a 46,XY Child with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Comment on Kulshreshtha et al. (2009)

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Meyer-Bahlburg, H.F.L. Concerns Regarding Gender Change to Male in a 46,XY Child with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Comment on Kulshreshtha et al. (2009). Arch Sex Behav 38, 876–877 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-009-9533-3

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