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A comprehensive and important text for health care professionalsGender variance is widely misunderstood, and few medical texts examine the social, legal, emotional, historical, biological, and economic issues involved. Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery provides medical and health care guidelines and comprehensive information on all aspects of treatment of gender diverse individuals. This one-of-a-kind resource examines a full range of relevant data important to health care professionals. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of care, written by an authority on that sub-special

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Imagining Transgender -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining Transgender -- Part II: Making Community, Conceiving Identity -- Introduction to Part II: Reframing Community and Identity -- 2. Making Community -- 3. ''I Know What I Am'': Gender, Sexuality, and Identity -- Part III: Emerging Fields -- Introduction to Part III: The Transexual, the Anthropologist, and the Rabbi -- 4. The Making of a Field: Anthropology and Transgender Studies -- 5. The Logic of Inclusion: Transgender Activism -- 6. The Calculus of Pain: Violence, Narrative, and the Self -- Conclusion: Making Ethnography -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

This paper aims to contribute to recent sociological debates about gendered identity constructions and formations, and gendered citizenship, by exploring gender transformation through an analysis of new femininities and masculinities as they are variously articulated by transgender women and men. The paper charts the ways in which transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest in recent years. Shifting attitudes towards transgender people are also evident through recent legislative changes brought by the Gender Recognition Act (2005). These social, cultural and legislative developments reflect the ways in which gender diversity is acquiring visibility in contemporary society, and suggest that gender diverse people themselves are experiencing greater levels of social inclusion. Such developments mark transgender as an important and timely area of sociological study. The paper argues that while the Gender Recognition Act marks a significant shift in socio-legal understandings of 'gender' as distinct from 'sex', it problematically remains tied to a medical perspective of transgender that continues to marginalise practices of gender diversity. The paper thus proposes caution against an assured trajectory of (trans) gender transformation and social change. Rather, normative binary understandings of 'gender' underpin recent social and legislative shifts, giving way to individual and collective tensions around the desirability of assimilation. In turn these issues produce divergent ways of living as 'new' women and men.

This paper examines practices of care within transgender support and self-help groups. Its aim is to widen the focus of work into practices and meanings of care by bringing an under-researched social group to the analysis of caring practices. The paper draws on qualitative research data to substantively explore transgender practices of care in relation to support groups and self-help organizations. Findings indicate that care is identified as a key value within transgender movements and education is articulated as an `ethic of care'. Critiques are brought to bear on medical understandings and systems of care, and transgender communities develop distinct practices of care based on notions of `shared understanding' and `giving back' to communities, which fill the gaps left by professional care services. Yet involvement in transgender communities is divergently situated in relation to politics of transgender identity and visibility. In conclusion I suggest that an analysis of transgender practices of care is not only important in relation to issues of social inclusion, citizenship and welfare provision, but is key to sociological understandings of the diversity of shifting practices of identity, intimacy and care in contemporary society.

This book is a major contribution to contemporary gender and sexuality studies. At a time when transgender practices are the subject of increasing social and cultural visibility, it marks the first UK study of transgender identity formation. It is also the first examination - anywhere in the world - of transgender practices of intimacy and care. The author addresses changing government legislation concerning the citizenship rights of transgender people. She examines the impact of legislative shifts upon transgender people's identities, intimate relationships and practices of care and considers the implications for future social policy. The book encompasses key approaches from the fields of psychoanalysis, anthropology, lesbian and gay studies, sociology and gender theory. Drawing on extensive interviews with transgender people, TransForming gender offers engaging, moving, and, at times, humorous accounts of the experiences of gender transition. Written in an accessible style, it provides a vivid insight into the diversity of living gender in today's world. The book will be essential reading for students and professionals in cultural studies, gender studies and sexuality studies as well as those in sociology, social policy, law, politics and philosophy. It will also be of interest to health and educational students, trainers and practitioners. Sally Hines is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at the University of Leeds. Her teaching and research interests fall within the areas of identity, gender, sexuality, the body and citizenship

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face the same family issues as their heterosexual counterparts, but that is only the beginning of their struggle. The LGBT community also encounters legal barriers to government recognition of their same-sex relationships and relationships to their own children. Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families addresses partner recognition, parenting, issues affecting children of LGBT parents, health care, discrimination, senior care and elder rights, and equal access to social services. Sean Cahill and Sarah Tobias provide up-to-date, accurate analysis of the major policies affecting LGBT people, their same-sex partners, and their children. This valuable resource offers literature reviews of demographic research as well as original research based on the U.S. Census same-sex couple sample. It also provides a look at the 30-year history of right-wing anti-gay activism and the intra-community intellectual debates over the fight for marriage.

Sex, secularism, and the "war on terrorism" : the role of sexuality in multi-issue organizing / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Freedom and the racialization of intimacy : Lawrence v. Texas and the emergence of queer liberalism / David L. Eng -- "No atheists in the foxhole" : toward a radical queer politics in a post-9/11 world / Sharon P. Holland -- Queer love in the time of war and shopping / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Who needs civil liberties? / Richard Meyer -- The relevance of race for the study of sexuality / Roderick A. Ferguson -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- Deviant teaching / David M. Halperin -- After Sontag : future notes on camp / Ann Pellegrini -- Queer spectrality : haunting the past / Carla Frecerro -- The desire for gender / Robyn Wiegman -- Methodologies of trans resistance / Dean Spade -- The history of aphallia and the intersexual challenge to sex/gender / Vernon A. Rosario -- Gesture and utterance : fragments from a butch femme archive / Juana Maria Rodriguez -- Queer belongings : kinship theory and queer theory / Elizabeth Freeman -- Forgetting family : queer alternatives to Oedipal relations / Judith Halberstam -- Between friends / Jennifer Doyle -- Queer regions : locating lesbians in Sancharram / Gayatri Gopinath -- The light that never goes out : butch intimacies and sub-urban sociabilities in "lesser Los Angeles" / Karen Tongson -- "Serious innovation" : an interview with Judith Butler / Jordana Rosenberg -- Materiality, pedagogy, and queer visibility / Amy Villarejo -- Melos, Telos, and me : transpositions of identity in the rock musical / James Tobias -- Promising complicities : on the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project / Miranda Joseph, David Rubin -- Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism / Jose Esteban Muñoz

Girl meets boy -- Confessions of a grown-up tomboy -- The opposite of 49 -- Snips & snails & sugar & spice -- Wearing the pants -- Genitals are the least of it -- Love is a many gendered thing