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The authors thank the Boston Children’s Hospital Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Working Group and Amanda M. Pollitt for their help in formulating these ideas and S. Bryn Austin and Stephen T. Russell for their comments on an earlier version of this letter.
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Li, G., Katz-Wise, S.L. & Calzo, J.P. The Unjustified Doubt of Add Health Studies on the Health Disparities of Non-Heterosexual Adolescents: Comment on Savin-Williams and Joyner (2014). Arch Sex Behav 43, 1023–1026 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0313-3
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