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Transgender medicine—long-term outcomes from 'the Dutch model'

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Medical intervention for transgender adolescents is a controversial issue but a recently published article describing long-term psychological outcomes using 'the Dutch model' of care should help to silence critics and reassure the growing number of clinicians treating this patient population.

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Shumer, D., Spack, N. Transgender medicine—long-term outcomes from 'the Dutch model'. Nat Rev Urol 12, 12–13 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2014.316

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