Dr. O'Keefe is a clinical hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and counsellor who specialises in sex gender and sexual identities. She is also willing to accept and promote the idea of individual identity and freedom, and that we all have much to learn from each other. She has included the words and stories of some of her clients and others who have attempted to educate us in a world which is all too often hostile to difference. This book recognises the diversity of individuals and allows them to tell their stories. It is a book which is clearly attempting to explain how prejudice and ignorance have placed those who are different as somehow marginal and as outsiders.
Liberation comes through personal and public understanding.
All of us are somehow expected to be a stereotypical being by others and ourselves. She calls for pop science to be questioned, generalisations to be interrogated and doubted, and for the respect we each deserve and that others deserve, but far too rarely give or receive. This book is not filled with the pomposity of so many of the tomes provided to us by various authors. She provides a much needed voice for minorities. Published by Extraordinary People Press Distributed in Great Britain by Turnaround.