Psychological distress among transgender people in Brazil: frequency, intensity and social causation – an ICD-11 field study

Objective: To describe self-reported experiences of gender incongruence related to discomfort and body changes to be more congruent to the desired gender, and to examine whether experiences of psychological distress related to gender identity were more strongly related to the experience of gender in...

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Main Authors: Maria I. Lobato, Bianca M. Soll, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Alexandre Saadeh, Daniel A.M. Gagliotti, Ana Fresán, Geoffrey Reed, Rebeca Robles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2019-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462019005004102&lng=en&tlng=en