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I wish this book were available on Kindle. Trans people often can guarantee their privacy better when purchasing books electronically, and this is well worth reading.
The book presents a range of trans people, from different backgrounds, and reveals that there is as much diversity within the community as without. Simply written and to the point, it does not engage in linguistic gymnastics or overwrought philosophizing. It simply treats trans people as people, whose drive to conform their bodies t ...more
The book presents a range of trans people, from different backgrounds, and reveals that there is as much diversity within the community as without. Simply written and to the point, it does not engage in linguistic gymnastics or overwrought philosophizing. It simply treats trans people as people, whose drive to conform their bodies t ...more
If the purpose of this book was to create greater empathy for transsexuals among mental health professionals who have little experience with us, maybe it succeeded; I have no way of judging this. For my reading purposes, though, there wasn't much, if anything, new or insightful. The most useful part for me was the afterword by Leah Cahan Schaefer and C. Christine Wheeler, which recaps their 1995 Archives of Sexual Behavior article on Harry Benjamin's first 10 cases; this time, they use the real
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Nov 19, 2019
Lillian Kodi
marked it as tranny-history
