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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

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 1 -- Notes -- References -- Introduction 2 -- Becoming the transperson -- Activism and the transgender community: becoming (trans)active -- Post-postmodern trans-theory: into the new millennium -- Part One: Becoming Trans -- 1. The Becoming Man: The Law's Ass Brays -- The transsexual? Sex sights/sites -- A legal position(ing) -- Travelling -- Seeing through Justice's blindfold -- Tackling sex site/sight discrimination -- Living in outer space -- See the word for the trees

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men -- 2. Perverse Presentism: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders -- 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion -- 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues -- 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum -- 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film -- 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance -- 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender films and videos. Between the Sheets, In the Streets considers these videos and films, testifying to the unavoidable connections between sexuality (the sheets) and activism (the streets) for all who identify as gay, lesbian, or queer in the 1990s. This first collection of essays to focus exclusively on queer, lesbian, and gay documentary argues that documentary films and videos speak with a sense of political and socia