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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, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver 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 the "Gender Specialist." The authors have also provided useful listings of organizations, centers, and World Wide Web sites. Transgender Ca

This timely work offers compelling facts and insights in a concise yet comprehensive format, bringing together the latest research and clinical practice related to these four distinct communities (self-identified lesbian women and gay men and bisexual and transgender individuals).

Fifteen articles assess the status of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trangender (GLBT) rights in public policy and administration in the United States and call attention to a number of policy and administrative issues of concern to the GLBT community that are seen by editor Swan (Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation) to be underreported and unde