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Foreword | |
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Preface: Overview of Transgender Emergence | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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The Language of Gender | |
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Gender Dysphoria and Etiological Theories | |
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The Families of Transgendered People | |
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The Need for Training | |
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Theoretical Understandings of Transgenderism | |
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The Transsexual Phenomenon Meets the Transexual Menace | |
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Compassionate and Controversial Treatment of Transsexuals | |
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The Mental Health Professional As Gatekeeper | |
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Clinical Guidelines--Therapeutic Standards of Care | |
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The Legacy: Gender Variance in History | |
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The Historical Legacy | |
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Medical Science and Gender Variance | |
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Deconstructing Sex and Gender: Thinking Outside the Box | |
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Four Components of Identity | |
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Deconstructing the Assumptions of Sexual Identity | |
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Diagnosis and Assessment | |
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Etiologies: Causes and Categories | |
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Etiological Theories: Nature and Nurture--Essentially Constructed | |
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Categorical Classifications: If the Shoe Doesn't Fit--Force It | |
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Diagnosis and Transgenderism: The Creation of Pathology | |
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The Power of Diagnosis | |
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Gender As Pathological Diagnosis | |
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Treatment Issues | |
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Learning to Listen to Gender Narratives | |
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Mental Health Issues and Transgenderism | |
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Clients Seeking Therapy | |
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Transgender Narratives | |
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Therapist As Midwife: The Birth of Story | |
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Transgender Emergence: A Developmental Process | |
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Coming Out | |
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Transgender Emergence | |
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Family Emergence | |
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Partners, Spouses, and Significant Others | |
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Developmental Stages for Family Members | |
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Families Coping with Transgenderism | |
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TransParents See | |
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Transgendered Children and Youth | |
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Treatment, Prevention, and Parental Rights | |
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Families with Gender-Variant Children | |
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Gender Variance and Progressive Treatments | |
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Transgender Emergence--Step-by-Step Maturation | |
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The Treatment of Intersexed People: Time for a New Paradigm | |
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Assigning Sex and the Modern Medical Protocols | |
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Creating Psychosocial Emergency | |
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Standards of Humane Treatment for Intersexed People | |
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The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Definition of Transsexualism | |
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Common Intersexed Conditions | |
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Letters of Recommendation for Hormones | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Index | |