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The Partial Transsexual

The “partial transsexual” is described as a person who has begun the surgical and hormonal process of sex change but, for varying reasons, has failed to complete the process, therefore being neither male nor female. A clinical history is presented to demonstrate the difficulty of society and its institutions to cope with changes in sociocultural values predicated on scientific breakthroughs.

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