Anxiety. It’s out there and it’s messing things up for us all. But for some of us, it’s really messing things up. As a trans woman, Freiya Benson is super anxious a lot of the time – from feeling unsafe in social situations, to worrying about how she looks and sounds – but over the…
This book is for the folks who thought transition would never be an option for them. For the ones who have been told they aren’t trans enough. For the rural Southern trans kids who feel like they are alone in this world. This book is for all the trans and gender expansive Southerners who insist…
Thirty-seven representatives of the medical, sur- posium sponsored by EEF was held in November, gical, psychiatric and psychological disciplines at- 1970, at the Koubek Center of the University of tended a University of Minnesota and Erickson Edu- Miami. The all-day program on transsexualism was cational Foundation-sponsored invitational sympo- sium in January, 1971, to exchange information…
A significant milestone in the effort to meet some of the social needs of individuals with the trans- sexual condition was reached in San Francisco in January at the Glide Memorial Church. A planning seminar, moderated by Officer Elliott R. Blackstone of The Police Community Relations Unit and sponsored by the National Transsexual Counseling Unit,…
We all have a mind, so we all need to take care of our mental health as much as we need to take care of our physical health. And the first step is being able to talk about our mental health. Juno Dawson leads the way with this frank, factual and funny book, with added…
A Human Rights Report to the Fifth State Report of the Federal Republic of Germany according to Articles 16 and 17 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 2008. Very few people today would claim that homosexuals are actually heterosexuals choosing to be homosexual. Four decades after the Stonewall riots, gays…
WHO IS THE TRANSEXUAL The transexual is a member of the human family, even as you and I, for whom life, in several critical respects, has been and still may be more complex than it is for us. This very broad answer to what may be for you an anguished question nevertheless will be seen…
Everything you wanted to know about puberty, but were too afraid to Google. Queen of Teen nominee, acclaimed YA author and former PSHCE teacher, James Dawson, expertly guides boys through puberty from surviving the social scene to learning about sex, how to pull, dealing with spotty faces and everything in between. Witty text paired with…
In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson’s Born on the Edge of Race and A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues of our time. This poetic, journalistic memoir shines an intersectional beacon…
“Transgender” has become a convenient umbrella term to cover a collectivity of individuals (including cross-dressers, transvestites, transsexuals, and intersexuals) who do not conform to traditional norms of gender identity or behavior. Until recent centuries, transgender behavior has rarely been the subject of scholarly or public attention. During the 20th century, medical advances in hormone therapy…