title: Case study: sex reassignment in a teenage girl.
abstract: The etiology of gender identity is explored through the case history of a teenager with intersex raised without stigmatization as a girl but who declared himself male at age 14 years. Psychological ramifications of such complex medical anomalies as ambiguous genitalia demand a role for child psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Reiner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005783:Gender Identity; D006060:Gonadal Dysgenesis, Mixed / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007812:Laos / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D014481:United States