Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface: Overview of Transgender Emergence
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Language of Gender
• Gender Dysphoria and Etiological Theories
• The Families of Transgendered People
• The Need for Training
• Part I: Theoretical Understandings of Transgenderism
• Chapter 1. The Transsexual Phenomenon Meets the Transexual Menace
• Compassionate and Controversial Treatment of Transsexuals
• The Mental Health Professional As Gatekeeper
• Clinical GuidelinesTherapeutic Standards of Care
• Chapter 2. The Legacy: Gender Variance in History
• The Historical Legacy
• Medical Science and Gender Variance
• Chapter 3. Deconstructing Sex and Gender: Thinking Outside the Box
• Four Components of Identity
• Deconstructing the Assumptions of Sexual Identity
• Part II: Diagnosis and Assessment
• Chapter 4. Etiologies: Causes and Categories
• Etiological Theories: Nature and NurtureEssentially Constructed
• Categorical Classifications: If the Shoe Doesn’t FitForce It
• Chapter 5. Diagnosis and Transgenderism: The Creation of Pathology
• The Power of Diagnosis
• Gender As Pathological Diagnosis
• Part III: Treatment Issues
• Chapter 6. Learning to Listen to Gender Narratives
• Mental Health Issues and Transgenderism
• Clients Seeking Therapy
• Transgender Narratives
• Therapist As Midwife: The Birth of Story
• Chapter 7. Transgender Emergence: A Developmental Process
• Coming Out
• Transgender Emergence
• Chapter 8. Family Emergence
• Partners, Spouses, and Significant Others
• Developmental Stages for Family Members
• Families Coping with Transgenderism
• TransParents See
• Chapter 9. Transgendered Children and Youth
• Treatment, Prevention, and Parental Rights
• Families with Gender-Variant Children
• Gender Variance and Progressive Treatments
• Transgender EmergenceStep-by-Step Maturation
• Chapter 10. The Treatment of Intersexed People: Time for a New Paradigm
• Assigning Sex and the Modern Medical Protocols
• Creating Psychosocial Emergency
• Standards of Humane Treatment for Intersexed People
• Appendix A. The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Definition of Transsexualism
• Appendix B. Common Intersexed Conditions
• Appendix C. Letters of Recommendation for Hormones
• Glossary
• References
• Index

About the Author

Arlene Istar Lev, Arlene Istar Lev