Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information and Personal Accounts
Author(s): G Israel (Author)
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Publication Date: 2 Dec. 1997
Language: English
Print length: 282 pages
ISBN-10: 1566395712
ISBN-13: 9781566395717
Book Description
By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, the authors discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role; that of u0022Gender Specialist.u0022 Chapters 3, 4, and 5 provide definitive information (in the context of consulting health professionals) on hormone administration, aesthetic surgery, and genital reassignment surgery. Chapter 6 takes up the little-examined issue of HIV and AIDS among transgender people. There is also a chapter devoted to issues of transgender people of color, as well as a chapter on transgender adolescents. The book contains a wealth of practical information and accounts of people’s experiences about coming out to one’s employer or to one’s friends or spouse. Several essays spell out the legal rights of transgender people with regard to insurance, work, marriage, and the use of rest rooms. The second part of the book consists of thirteen essays on a range of controversial topics. They include three personal stories of transgender life, one essay on the new academic field of Transgender Studies, two essays on legal rights, three essays on medical issues, and two essays on the origins and possible resolution of the conflicts between therapist and client. The authors have also provided useful listings of organizations, centers, and web sites. The book has been reviewed by a national committee of professionals and consumers, some of whose members have contributed the essays in the second part of the book.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The title tells pretty much what this groundbreaking anthology offers: a comprehensive distillation of personal experiences and professional wisdom.” –Feminist Bookstore News “Professionals who work with individuals with gender identity issues and those with gender issues themselves have long needed a comprehensive guide to treatment. Finally, it is here. Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver have done a wonderful job of putting resource material from many fields into one easy to use reference book. Transgender Care is without a doubt a breakthrough work, as it addresses issues of cultural diversity, sexual orientation, and lifestyle that have been previously overlooked or ignored in the clinical literature. The supporting essays provide practical information about employment and insurance and confront the ethical difficulties of professionals who serve as gatekeepers to those who desire treatment. The authors have done a service to caregivers and transfolk alike with this monumental work.” –Dallas Denney, M.A., Licensed Psychological Examiner, Executive Director, American Education Gender Information Service, Inc. “This wonderful book…is a comprehensive resource.” –Archives of Sexual Behavior
From the Author
A handbook dedicated to empowering consumers and specialists By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, the authors discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vest relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role, that of “Gender Specialist.” The book contains a wealth of practical information and accounts of people’s experiences about coming out to one’s employer or to one’s friends or spouse. Several essays spell out the legal rights of transgender people with regard to insurance, work, marriage, and the use of rest rooms. The book has been reviewed by a national committee of professionals and consumers, some of whose members contributed essays to the second part of the book.
About the Author
Gianna E. Israel has been in private practice as a Gender Specialist since 1988. She has worked with over one thousand transgendered men and women, and is also a member of the transgender community. She is a founding member of the board of the American Education Gender Information Service (AEGIS). Ms. Israel writes the “Ask Gianna” column in the magazine Transgender Tapestry and posts a monthly column on the Internet (“GenderArticles”). Donal E. Tarver II, M.D., is a community psychiatrist in San Francisco working in pubic mental health and a private practice. He is Medical Director of New Leaf — a multi-service agency serving the mental health, substance abuse recovery, HIV/AIDS, and social service needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. He coordinated the Gender Identity Program within a community mental health clinic from 1992 to 1994. A Graduate of Harvard College and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Dr. Tarver co-founded Minority Residents Association at the University of California, San Francisco, and later joined that institution’s clinical faculty.
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