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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 | |