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The Plasticity of Sex provides a comprehensive view on the development of human sexuality. The emergence of issues surrounding gender identity, genital ambivalence, and the transition from one sex to another is striking, with the public and treating physicians alike clamoring for an evidence-based, comprehensive treatment of human sexuality and all its variations.
Dr. Legato is working on a forthcoming edition for the lay public that will focus on new perspectives on the topic of human sexuality, not as a black-or-white classification system but as a continuum in which variations that have a firm basis in molecular biology.
Specialist in internal medicine and primary care.