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True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals
Combines authoritative information and humanitarian insight into the transsexual experience
Filled with wisdom and understanding, this groundbreaking book paints a vivid portrait of conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis--and the courage they must summon as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and others. True Selves offers valuable guidance for tho...more
Filled with wisdom and understanding, this groundbreaking book paints a vivid portrait of conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis--and the courage they must summon as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and others. True Selves offers valuable guidance for tho...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
April 15th 2003
by Jossey-Bass
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Gwen
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Recommends it for:
Friends, colleagues, and family members of transgendered individuals
Recommended to Gwen by:
David
Shelves:
gender-issues
This book is a good, general introduction to transgendered people and how society perceives them. While it is a valuable guide, it is neither comprehensive nor entirely accurate. The book contains many generalizations that do not ring true. The authors often use incorrect names and/or pronouns for a number of the patients referred to in the book, which is both confusing and inappropriate. Nevertheless, if someone you know is transgender, this book will help give you some (rudimentary) insigh...more
Way back when I first read this, in the university library in 2000 or so, I would have rated this at five stars; but then, I probably would have been crying my eyes out at the time, too. This book was instrumental in helping me come close enough to terms with my transsexuality to get treatment, and for that I think it's wonderful: the personal stories within resonated with me in way nothing else ever had.
But I think it's also rather narrow, as well, and may not really reflect the re...more
But I think it's also rather narrow, as well, and may not really reflect the re...more
while in general i thought this was a good book, a nice, basic overview to dealing with transssexual people, i also found it to be really condescending to transsexuals. i found the authors used confusing pronouns and didn't get it right on a number of occasions.
i also felt that this book, in the way it talked about transsexual people, really pathologized and trivialized them. i know it's a book for people who are coming to terms with someone in their life, but to be so consistently ...more
i also felt that this book, in the way it talked about transsexual people, really pathologized and trivialized them. i know it's a book for people who are coming to terms with someone in their life, but to be so consistently ...more
There really aren't very many books, if at all, for transsexuals out there, especially books for transsexuals to help them understand and figure out what to do once they begin to really realize they are transsexual but this is the next best thing. It is very informative, talking about transsexualism in an unbiased and straight forward way, of dealing with it, what to expect in therapy and treatment. It's a good read for transsexuals and for people who know and/or care about a transsexual.
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Good overview about the condition / progression from a therapist's perspective on her clients. Not entirely relevant to what I wanted, but it seemed to encompass a lot of information in the couple hundred pages.
The Good:
later sections on therapy, coming out, and other practical aspects of transition are still pretty useful
The Bad:
the first half of the book is an outdated exercise in irrelevant etiology, parroting the old-school Standard Transsexual Story (while claiming not to, even!)
The Ugly:
in most causes the authors refer to people by their gender assigned at birth, not by how they identify. That alone makes me want to not recommend this book, but if you're...more
later sections on therapy, coming out, and other practical aspects of transition are still pretty useful
The Bad:
the first half of the book is an outdated exercise in irrelevant etiology, parroting the old-school Standard Transsexual Story (while claiming not to, even!)
The Ugly:
in most causes the authors refer to people by their gender assigned at birth, not by how they identify. That alone makes me want to not recommend this book, but if you're...more
This book is extremely helpful for anyone who is questioning whether or not they are Transgender or Transexual. It is also good for anyone who has a TS or TG person in their life.
My therapist recommended this book and while there is some decent information in there and some things I identify with the language and generalizations about transgendered and transsexual people is very maddening.
A clinical read. Troublesome terminology, not a book for educating as it intends.
Would be better named "True Asshattery."
A book to give your Mother.
an great look in to the issue
This is a book that I recommend to anyone who wants to know about transsexuals or anyone who is just starting to transition, this book is a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to know more or wants their family to know more. My friend Piper loaned her copy to her employer to educate him. This is a great book.
It's a good introduction book for people who want to know about transsexual issues and the process of transitioning. It does show its age (1996), and is limited in its demographics of mainly older transsexuals.
Good book for people to read when a loved one or a friend has recently come out as transsexual.
Good book for people to read when a loved one or a friend has recently come out as transsexual.
Alyssa Marino Medina
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Recommends it for:
Anyone interested in learnng about transsexuals.
Recommended to Alyssa by:
Therapist.
Shelves:
lgbt-studies,
gender-studies
This is a great book for anyone who cares for someone who is transsexual.
fascinating! great for an overview about transsexuals, especially for friends, family, and professionals (just like the subtitle says) but if you're looking for a little something more in depth, I suggect picking up another book.
Good for people that don't understand.
I gave this one to my mom to read.
I gave this one to my mom to read.
Seems like a very solid intro.
Nathen
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basics for working with the trans, queer community... very well written.
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