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. 2023 Jun 14:381:e073584.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-073584.

Detransition needs further understanding, not controversy

Kinnon Ross MacKinnon  1   2 , Pablo Expósito-Campos  3   4 , W Ariel Gould  2
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Detransition needs further understanding, not controversy

Kinnon Ross MacKinnon et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Kinnon MacKinnon and colleagues call for robust, sensitive research to inform comprehensive gender care services for people who detransition

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare. Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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