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"What does it mean to be trans? A common understanding of transgender, or trans for short, is that a person's gender differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. However, many see the idea of being trans as more complicated -- as an active process of challenging the formal structures that govern how gender is defined. For different people, and in different times, places, and contexts, gender itself can be a broad entity or a very narrow one, and in various ways, understandings of "trans" can seem too expansive or too restrictive"--

Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know is an introduction to the topic of gender that explores numerous debates and controversies (i.e., what is the influence of biology on gender, how does the media impact gender and gender roles, and do transgender people reinforce gender stereotypes or help to free us from them?). In an easy-to-read format that includes questions and short responses, the book guides the reader through basic definitions; the history of gender as a concept; the role of biology, psychology, and culture on gender; and gender norms over time and across the globe.

Cover -- Volume 1 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Politics of LGBT Health -- A Short History of Early LGBT Health Activism -- Policy Paradigms in LGBT Health -- The Disparities Paradigm -- The Health in All Policies Paradigm: Social Determinants And Health Equity -- An Overview of Federal Lgbt Health Policy Between 2009 and 2016 -- Data Collection about LGBT Population Health -- Legislative Approaches to LGBT Health -- The Affordable Care Act -- Policies and Programs at the Federal Department of Health and Human Services -- LGBT Federal Health Policy After 2016 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Interactions between Culture, Race, and Sexuality in Health -- Conceptualizing LGBT Health: The Role of Race and Culture -- Religion/spirituality and LGBT Health -- Intersectionality: A Promising Paradigm for True LGBT Health -- Moving Beyond Hiv and Sexual Health: Considerations of Race and Culture -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health and Epidemiology -- Why LGBT Public Health? -- The Social Construction of Sexual Orientation and Gender -- A Brief History of LGBT Public Health -- Conceptual Approaches to Understanding Health and Health Disparities -- Health Disparities -- Health Concerns That Differ from Those of Other Populations -- Discussion and Future Challenges -- References -- Chapter 4: Transgender Medical Care in the United States: A Historical Perspective -- A Comment on Terminology -- Trans-Competent and Affirming Health Care Environments -- Preventive Health in Trans Populations -- Mental Health as Preventive Health -- Society's Effect on Transgender Mental Health -- Mental Health Disparities -- Resilience -- Discrimination in Healthcare Settings -- Gender Dysphoria as a Diagnosis -- To Diagnose or Not to Diagnose?.