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Original Articles

‘I don’t care what’s under your clothes’: the discursive positioning of educators working with trans and gender-nonconforming students

Pages 63-76 | Received 01 Jun 2014, Accepted 21 Feb 2015, Published online: 21 Apr 2015

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