Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (2014)
Jamison Green and I prepared a 30,000-word chapter on trans representations in the media. As things sometimes go in the book publishing business, it morphed into a series of media spotlights. Anyone interested in a great chapter on trans people in the media?
Read MoreTransgender Communities in the United States in the Late Twentieth Century (2006)
What were the historical roots of this larger transgender community, and how did it so quickly arise and so quickly grow? What kept these communities apart for so many years, and what eventually brought them together?
Read MoreBlack Telephones, White Refrigerators: Rethinking Christine Jorgensen (1998)
If she changed the world for nontranssexual people, Jorgensen had an even more profound effect on people who were like her. Her story galvanized many transsexual men and women into seeking the same sort of medical treatment. In 1953, Christine Hamburger published a paper in which he described receiving 465 letters from men and women, desperately begging for a “sex change.” Neither he, nor anyone else, was prepared to oblige them.
Read MoreGender Variability, Transsexuals, Crossdressers, and Others (2007)
This draft differs in small way from the printed version. I was unable to scan the printed pages without breaking the book’s spine. The chapter appears here courtesy of Praeger Publishers.
Read MoreComing of Age in the Land of Two Genders (1997)
I was honored to be asked to make a contribution to this book of autobiographies of famous sexologists.
Read MoreTerminology, Gender Diversity, and the Primacy of Gender (2000)
I’m grateful to Dr. Sandra Cole for allowing me to be second author of this chapter.
Read MoreGender Identity: From Dualism to Diversity (2007)
This draft differs in small ways from the printed version. I was unable to scan the printed pages without breaking the book’s spine. The chapter appears here courtesy of Praeger Publishers.
Read MoreTransgender Cross-Cultural and Historical Models (1997)
This book chapter looks at historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary models of gender variance and provides suggestions for researchers, authors, and mental health professionals.
Read MoreMy Transsexual Autobiography (2006)
For me, gender reassignment was a good thing, a fulfilling thing. It removed the pebble from my shoe. Life is good.
Read MoreShifting Paradigms? Making the Move to Transgender Clinical Practices (2004)
My chapter in the edited text Transsgender Subjectivities rated a paragraph from reviewer Karl Bryant.
Read MoreDallas Denny: A Public Person Speaks Out (2001)
You are right in your observation that transgender publications rarely mention AIDS. Certainly they should. I think editors often deal with the issue by not dealing with it. The readers certainly need information, especially as it relates to gender issues.
Read MoreTransgender Identities and Bisexual Expression: Implications for Counselors (2007)
I’m awaiting permission to post the text and book pages here.
Read MoreGender Identity and Bisexuality (1996)
Jamison Green and I collaborated for this groundbreaking chapter about sexual orientation in transendered and transsexual people. It appeared in 1996 in Beth Firestein’s edited text, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority (Sage Books)
Read MoreReader’s Favorite Graffiti (1983)
When, in the early 1980s, I read a book about graffiti by Marina Naan and Richard Hammerstrom, I sent them these selections for a forthcoming volume. It was and remains my only involvement with graffiti.
Read MoreElectrolysis in Transsexual Women: A Retrospective Look at Frequency of Treatment in Four Cases (1997)
This study is, so far as I am aware, the only empirical study of electrolysis in transsexuals.
Read MoreChristine Jorgensen and MTF Articles, Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality (2015)
The editors of the Encyclopedia of human sexuality asked me to contribute two articles– one an entry on Christine Jorgensen and the second on male-to-female identities and behavior. after some time has elapsed, I’ll ask permission from Wiley-Blackwell to print them here. Hopefully, they will say yes.
Read MoreDown and Coming Out at the Ross Fireproof Hotel (2006)
I’m treating Miss Charlotte to a meal for her birthday. Looking fabulous, if artificial with her ridiculous, pumped-up cheekbones, and with two Cape Cods inside her, she’s reading me for my stand against injected silicones.
Read MoreYou’re Strange and We’re Wonderful (1994)
With its newly-found voice, the transgender community will no longer tolerate colonization by the gay community. People like Billy Tipton, Radclyffe Hall, and Joan of Arc are being reclaimed as transgendered—queer, but not gay. And it’s clear it’s a reclamation and not a revision, for they were stolen from the transgender community, which wants them back. And make no mistake about it: the murmur of today will be a roar tomorrow.
Read MoreJust Another Year in Chronic 1A (1988)
We’re on the big goddamned yellow and black school bus, on our way to a “picnic,” which means we’ll stop at a roadside park with three trees and two concrete picnic tables and eat extra krispy recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken, bones and all, and maybe even the plastic sporks, the hungrier of us. Then we will be put back on the bus and driven back to the hospital, where we will disembark and be rolled back to the musty, dusty, and always gloomy buildings, back to the chronic wards.
Read MoreWhy is Your Partner This Way? (1996)
The upshot of all this is that scientists know as little as they did in the first place. No clearly identifiable cause for being transgendered a being transgendered has been isolated, and it is unlikely that one will be in the foreseeable future.
Read MoreThe Gender Revolution (1995)
Kate tells us there are millions of genders. The gender we wake up with in the morning may not be the one we go to bed with. We are free to try on one gender after another, as if they were coats at the consignment shop. “Here’s a nice gender. And only $19.95! Won’t it look good at the symphony tonight!”
Read MoreTransgendered Youth at Risk for Exploitation, HIV, Hate Crimes (2003)
Many transgendered and transsexual persons are rejected by their families or are victims of hate crimes, rape, persecution, discrimination in employment and housing, and denial of social services based either on their appearance or because others possess knowledge that they are transgendered.
Read MoreChanging Models of Transsexualism (2004)
The transgender model has opened a middle ground that was not possible under the medical model it replaced. Before about 1990, transgendered persons were expected to declare themselves to be crossdressers, who were not expected to seek sex reassignment; or transsexuals, who were expected to and who came under pressure from peers when they didn’t.
Read MoreAccommodating Trans Students in Colleges and Universities (1998)
It’s safe to say that sooner or later almost every post-secondary school will be confronted with the issue of gender-variant students.
Read MoreNight Ride (1993)
Bicycles have changed, and yet they are the same. They are still silent running and breezes in your hair and sweaty palms from holding onto handlebars too long. They are leaning into curves and riding without hands, pumping hard when you go uphill, and coasting when you can find a downhill. Modern bikes only remotely resemble those I rode when I was a kid the first time, but the old-time feeling is still there, fresh as ever it was and ever will be.
Read MoreResults of a Questionnaire on the Standards of Care (1995)
We prepared and distributed a questionnaire which solicited the opinions of transgendered and transexual persons about the HBIGDA Standards of Care. In this paper, we present some results of that survey and discuss some of the issues involved in imposing such standards on transexual bodies.
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