The nurse is told that a patient believes he was born into the wrong body. The nurse recognizes this desire to have the body of the opposite sex as:
a. homosexuality.
b. transsexualism.
c. heterosexuality.
d. bisexuality.
B
Transsexualism is a persistent desire to be the opposite sex and to have the body of the opposite sex.
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a. true b. false
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