Her recollection of even the smallest detail is quite remarkable. Anyone contemplating SRS should read her stirring and inspirational account. By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. This amazing book covers the whole transsexual experience from start to finish, giving the facts comprehensively as never published before.
Gender is the most misunderstood topic of our times.
Freud made a similar statement over 70 years ago and Dr. Ettner reminds us that it is still true. In spite of gender's mysteries and voyeuristic possibilities, Dr. Ettner goes far in helping us to close the imposing empathy gap that inevitably exists between sex-gender congruent and incongruent persons.