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"Each title in the Unlocking Current Issues series presents the evolution of a salient current issue, with a focus on providing historical evidence of key moments in the development of the issue through excerpts of primary documents and contextual information, and a clear summary of positions. This volume focuses on transgender life"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Overview -- 1 What Does It Mean to Be Transgender? -- 2 A Brief History of Transgender People -- 3 Transitioning -- 4 Physical Health -- 5 Mental Health -- Part II: Controversies and Issues -- 6 Discrimination against Transgender People -- 7 Access to Health and Social Services and Public Facilities -- 8 Transgender Athletes: Who Competes against Whom? -- 9 Normative Gender Dichotomies and Alternatives -- 10 Parenting and Family Issues -- 11 Research Issues -- Part III: Scenarios -- 12 Case Studies -- Glossary -- Timeline -- Sources for Further Information -- Index -- About the Author

Front Cover -- Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth -- Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- 1 - History of Care of Transgender Youth -- DEDICATION -- REFERENCES -- 2 - Models of Care and Current Guidelines for Care of Transgender Individuals -- GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE -- PRACTICE GUIDELINES -- MENTAL HEALTHCARE -- MEDICAL CARE -- ADJUNCTIVE SERVICES -- BARRIERS TO CARE -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 3 - Puberty -- PHYSICAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH PUBERTY -- Female Changes -- Male Changes -- Age at Onset -- Growth Spurt -- Changes in Body Composition -- Other Changes of Puberty -- PHYSIOLOGY OF PUBERTY -- Endocrine Changes From Fetal Life to Puberty -- Changes at Birth and the Mini Puberty of INFANCY -- The Juvenile Pause or the Mid-Childhood Nadir of Gonadotropin Secretion -- Peripubertal Gonadotropin Increase -- Sex Steroid Secretion -- Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulation -- Leptin and Puberty -- Ovulation and Menarche -- Adrenarche -- DELAYED PUBERTY OR ABSENT PUBERTY (SEXUAL INFANTILISM) -- Constitutional Delay in Growth and Adolescence -- Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism -- Central nervous system disorders -- Other acquired central nervous system disorders -- Developmental defects -- Radiation therapy -- Isolated gonadotropin deficiency -- Idiopathic hypopituitary dwarfism (growth hormone deficiency in the absence of defined anatomic or organic defects) -- Miscellaneous disorders -- Chronic disease and malnutrition -- Anorexia nervosa -- Increased physical activity -- Hypothyroidism -- Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism -- PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY (SEXUAL PRECOCITY) -- Central (Complete or True) Precocious Puberty -- Idiopathic central (complete or true) isosexual precociious puberty -- Genetic causes of central precocious puberty

Intro -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Introduction -- Struggles in the Transgender Community -- The Quest for Transgender Equality -- Estimate of U.S. Transgender Population Doubles to 1.4 Million Adults -- Boy Scouts, Reversing Century-Old Stance, Will Allow Transgender Boys -- She? Ze? They? What's in a Gender Pronoun -- Milestones in the American Transgender Movement -- The Struggle for Fairness for Transgender Workers -- Medicaid Work Requirements Are Yet Another Burden for Trans Workers -- How Should High Schools Define Sexes for Transgender Athletes? -- These Transgender Children Say They're Thriving. They Want to Help Others Do the Same. -- Who Gets to Play the Transgender Part? -- Beyond Caitlyn Jenner Lies a Long Struggle BY Transgender People -- Seventeen Transgender Killings Contrast with Growing Visibility -- Activists Say Police Abuse of Transgender People Persists Despite Reforms -- Poor, Transgender and Dressed for Arrest -- Violence Against Transgender People Is on the Rise, Advocates Say -- Transgender Access Laws in Schools -- As Transgender Students Make Gains, Schools Hesitate at Bathrooms -- Transgender Students and 'Bathroom Laws' in South Dakota and Beyond -- South Dakota Bill on Transgender Students' Bathroom Access Draws Ire -- U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms -- Transgender Directives for Schools Draw Reaction from Across the Country -- Solace and Fury as Schools React to Transgender Policy -- Transgender Bathroom Debate Turns Personal at a Vermont High School -- How the Push to Advance Bathroom Rights for Transgender Americans Reached the White House -- How High School Students See the Transgender Bathroom Issue -- A Transgender Student Won Her Battle. Now It's War. -- Gavin Grimm -- For Transgender Americans, Legal Battles Over Restrooms

"This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies."--Provided by publisher

Introduction: toward a trans-of-color critique of medicine -- The racial plasticity of gender and the child -- Before transsexuality: the transgender child from the 1900s to the 1930s -- Sex in crisis: intersex children in the 1950s and the invention of gender -- From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: transgender childhood in the 1960s -- Transgender boyhood, race, and puberty in the 1970s -- Conclusion: how to bring your kids up trans

In a compilation of personal stories and photographs from twenty different transitioning individuals, Linda DeFruscio illustrates the courage, struggle, and triumph in every person taking the journey to a new, true self. Transgender Profiles is an inspirational text not to be missed by any and all who are curious about this life-changing process.

"Argentina was the first nation in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage. It also passed legislation making it one of the most advanced countries worldwide in terms of transgender rights—the culmination of a long battle fought by LGBTQ support groups. Award-winning photographer Kike Arnal collaborates with individuals in Argentinian transgender communities, living side by side with them and documenting their day-to-day lives in a series of strikingly intimate color and black-and-white images. Among them are a former sex worker who is now a recognized leader of the Buenos Aires trans community, a single trans mother of three teenage girls whose partner had fallen victim to drug abuse, and the residents of the Hotel Gondolin, a small, derelict family hotel now inhabited by a few dozen trans women. Despite the progress, the situation in Argentina is far from perfect. Trans people are still discriminated against and subject to verbal violence, physical assault, and police abuse. Of interest to LGBTQ activists and photography enthusiasts alike, Revealing Selves is both a celebration of the trans community in Argentina and a clear-eyed examination of what remains to be done in the struggle for trans rights." -- publisher's website

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1: The Essentials: Foundational Knowledge to Support Affirmative Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Older Adults -- 2: Endocrinology, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Aging -- 3: Transgender Physiology, Anatomy, and Aging: A Provider's Guide to Gender-Affirming Surgeries -- 4: The Intersection of Transgender Identities, HIV, and Aging -- 5: Transgender Intimate Partner Violence and Aging -- 6: Substance Use and Recovery in the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Older Adult Community -- 7: Trauma and Aging -- 8: Religion, Spirituality, and Health Behaviors: Intersections with Gender Diversity and Aging -- 9: Integrating Intersectionality when Working with Trans Older Adults -- 10: Evolving Aging Service Networks: Meeting the Demands for Inclusive and Comprehensive Older Transgender Adult Services -- 11: Aging in Place, Caregiving, and Long-Term Care for Transgender Adults -- 12: End of Life: Honor and Celebration of TGNC Individuals -- 13: Transitioning and Generational Cohort: Retirement -- 14: Voices: Stories of Resilience -- Index.

Little research has been conducted in Australia on the experiences and lives of postoperative trans people. This project grew out of one conducted in 2011 and was conducted from 2012 to 2016. The first author completed an Honors project, supervised by the second author, undertaking a qualitative study using a narrative approach, on the social functioning and daily lives of trans people who had undergone sex reassignment surgery and the influence the surgery had on their lives. That study, entitled Sex reassignment surgery: Panacea, placebo or Pandora's box?-A narrative inquiry, had methodological significance in that it steered away from a quantitative approach to exploring the lived experience of people undergoing sex reassignment surgery. That research suggested that following sex reassignment surgery, trans people have complex psychosocial issues, not the least of which are feelings of grief and loss associated with the procedure and the development of personal identities. As a result of the complexity of the issues and the first author's own recollections of the surgical process, a PhD study was undertaken addressing how trans people who have undergone sex reassignment surgery navigate this life-changing event, whether they considered their needs had been met, and how systems could be improved to cater for those needs. Individuals who identify as transgender are often discriminated against and marginalized by society, based on challenges to heteronormativity and/or an assumed psychiatric condition called gender dysphoria. In terms of research, these circumstances place trans people in the "vulnerable population" category. This case study explores how research involving transgender people involves certain methodological challenges, including issues surrounding sampling and recruitment, ethical considerations, and the relationship between the researcher and the researched when the principal researcher is a member of the target population.

There is a current shortage of information for professionals on the specific needs of transgender men. Exploring the obstacles that trans men face across health and social services, and addressing common myths and misconceptions about transitioning, this book solves this shortfall

This book is a collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of 'the transgender child' as a young person whose 'true' gender lies in the brain, or pre-social 'identity'. Contributors contest this diagnosis from a range of perspectives, including as social theorists, psychotherapists, persons living as transgender, individuals who have de-transitioned, and parents of adolescents identifying as transgender. They argue that medicine, social policy and the law build ideas about 'the transgender child', and contend that it is politics, not science, which accounts for the exponential rise in the number of children diagnosed as transgender by gender identity clinics. They conclude that today's medical and social trend for transgendering children is not liberal and progressive, but politically reactionary, physically and psychologically dangerous and abusive.