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Guidelines for Transgender Care

Get the tools to effectively meet the needs of transgender people in your community Guidelines for Transgender Care is a one-of-a-kind guidebook for training practitioners to meet the healthcare and social services needs of transgender people in their community. Based on a collaboration between community-based health professionals in British Columbia and international experts in transgender health,... (more)

Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities

Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities

by Jason Cromwell

Writing as an insider and an anthropologist, Jason Cromwell presents the first in-depth examination of what it means to be a female-bodied trans person. Through extensive participant observation and open-ended interviews, "Transmen and FTMs" allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female.In... (more)

The Doctor: A Novel

by Patricia Duncker

So begins The Doctor, a provocative, illuminating novel based on a true story about a brilliant female physician who is compelled to live as a man under the name James Miranda Barry. Patricia Duncker traces Barry's incredible life over the course of five decades and across three continents, from his cross-dressing child genius days to medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland; from his glorious career as a military... (more)

The Lecturer's Tale: A Novel

by James Hynes

Nelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power—he can force his will onto others with a touch of his finger. And... (more)

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

by Carol Queen

PoMoSexuals dishes up an all-star cast of articulate, witty gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered authors - all of whom want to explode your assumptions about sexuality : Pat Califia, Dorothy Allison, Laura Antoniou, Jill Nagle, Ricki Anne Wilchins, Michael Thomas Ford, Scott O'Hara, Marco Vassi, Carol Queen, John Weir, D. Travers Scott, Greta Christina.

Interventions With Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender People: From the Inside Out

Interventions With Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender People: From the Inside Out

by Andrew Gottlieb

Though much literature is devoted to treating GLBTQ individuals, relatively little has focused on working with their family members. Interventions with Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People: From the Inside Out presents ten first-hand, in-depth personal and professional perspectives by educators, researchers, administrators, and practitioners discussing various ways of working with families of... (more)

Great Events From History, GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Trangender Events (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender)

Great Events From History, GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Trangender Events (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender)

Chronicles important historical events that identified, defined, and legally established the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities from 1855.

The Riddle of Gender

by Deborah Rudacille

When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one’s gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years,... (more)

Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Health

Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Health

by John P Harcourt Iii

Learn what resources are needed for lesser-recognized LGBT health issues Most literature that explores LGBT health issues concentrates on HIV/AIDS while leaving research studies on other vital issues lacking. Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health addresses this inadequacy by presenting a broad range of LGBT health issues from an interdisciplinary and mixed-method perspective. Leading... (more)

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Issues: Selections from the American Journal of Public Health

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Issues: Selections from the American Journal of Public Health

by American Public Health Association

Articles cover health, HIV/AIDS, mental health, substance abuse, and sexuality. Plastic-comb binding.

Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender College Students

Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender College Students

From California to Vermont, countless college students are grappling not only with grades, jobs, and student loans but with their very identity. For gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students, college can be a disorienting and lonely experience. In spite of tremendous progress over the past 20 years, the presence of GLBT clubs, and queer studies curricula, an overwhelmingly large number of them not only... (more)

From Wounded Hearts: Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People and Those Who Love Them

From Wounded Hearts: Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People and Those Who Love Them

Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities

Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities

by Dawn Atkins

Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer will give members of these communities hope, insight, and information to body image issues, helping you to accept and... (more)

Together In Love: Faith Stories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Couples.

Together In Love: Faith Stories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Couples.

by Roberta Showalter Kreider

Twenty-six couples share their personal stories of faithfulness to God and to each other. The book challenges the premise that these people are living in sin and are a menace to society. It also challenges the myth that being gay is all about promiscuous sex. One of the couples has celebrated over 40 years of life together. Also included are stories and poems by parents, spouses, and friends of GLBT persons.... (more)

Hear Me Out: True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia

Hear Me Out: True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia

by Planned Parenthood of Toronto

More and more gay teens are speaking out about the realisation of their sexuality, and about the consequences - the reactions of friends and families, schoolmates and society in general. These heartfelt memoirs, originally presented orally in schools, speak poignantly about the lives of young gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people today.

Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights

Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights

by Stephen Whittle

In this fascinating work, theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender and law, and an extensive range of primary and secondary research materials, are combined to provide an insightful analysis into the inadequacies of current law.

Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

by Thomas A. Foster

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for... (more)

Issues In Therapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Clients

Issues In Therapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Clients

by Neal

With volume three of the Pink Therapy series the editors have collated articles on 12 further issues of particular concern to non-heterosexual clients. Professionals from various fields of therapy offer guidelines for good practice, in areas ranging from HIV and AIDS to psychosexual problems.

Transgender good newsPat Conover

Transgender good news

by Pat Conover

Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing

Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing

by Richard Ekins

Blending Genders is concerned with those who attempt to or succeed in blending various aspects of gender. The book describes personal experiences of cross-dressers and their social organization--in both "outsider" and "respectable" communities. The contributors consider the medical framework through which gender blending is so often seen and examine the treatment afforded gender blending in literature, the press... (more)

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