Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
"[A] groundbreaking title" --Publisher's Weekly"As transgender people strive to gain more acceptance and legal protections, they will soon have a hefty new resource to assist them - a 672-page book, written by scores of transgender contributors, that encompasses social history, gender politics and wide-ranging advice on health, law, relationships and many other matters.  Encyclopedic in scope, conversational in tone, and candid about complex sexual issues, the Oxford University Press book being released in mid-May is titledTrans Bodies, Trans Selves- a deliberate echo of a pioneering feminist health-resource book,Our Bodies,Ourselvesthat appeared more than 40 years ago" --Associated Press"I have been waiting for some time to see a book come out that is written for the purposes of providing timely information to transgender individuals to support them through their identity process. The comprehensiveness of this book is a major strength that can be applied to transgender individuals, their loved ones, and those who are in fields that impact transgender individuals. I have yet to have seen a book that incorporates information for individuals who identify on the gender spectrum-most books focus on one specific identity, whereas Trans Bodies, Trans Selves allows for the breadth of applying to many different individuals. This book appears to carry on the tradition of affirming many different transgender identities and the identification process." -Stephanie L. Budge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology, University of Louisville"Trans Bodies, Trans Selvesis the answer to the wishes of many trans individuals and their therapists and counselors for a comprehensive resource of critical information that is both accurate and reliable, on the one hand, and written in a respectful way that is addressed to trans and questioning readers rather than at them or about them. I wholeheartedly recommend this book." -Michael L. Hendricks,  Ph.D., ABPP, Clinical Psychologist, Washington Psychological Center"...a community of people who are the best experts on themselves has come together to create a resource of information, mutual support, and political advocacy that will strengthen many. Thanks toTrans Bodies, Trans Selvesand all the transgender folks who have been writing and teaching over the past many years, we, a group of cisgender women, now know that we can no longer say 'a woman's body' and mean only one thing." -From the Afterword by Wendy Sanford, author ofOur Bodies, Our Selves"The many voices raised in the pages ofTrans Bodies, Trans Selvesare the vanguard of a rising tide. If you are new to transgender, transsexual, or trans* experience, prepare to be swept away." -Jamison Green, President of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), co-director of the Transgender Law & Policy Institute, and author ofBecoming a Visible Man"Trans Bodies, Trans Selvescomes at a moment in our history when transgender people are in the spotlight, but we are not yet the authority on our own lives. This critical resource will provide a beacon of hope for the transgender person in crisis who is facing a barrage of negative messages, life-threatening discrimination, and a lack of support and validation. We now have a volume that speaks to our lived experiences and provides the message that our lives matter, we are powerful in ourselves and our bodies, and we demand political, social, and legal equality." -M. Dru Levasseur, JD, Director of Lambda Legal's Transgender Rights Project and Co-Founder of the Jim Collins Foundation, providing financial assistance to transgender people for gender-confirming surgeries"One of the most grassroots, comprehensive transgender and gender noncomforming (TGNC) community-based literary projects I have ever seen. Lots of great people with diverse perspectives brought together to provide a truly holistic look at what is to be a TGNC person in all the various ways one may define that for themselves. A great resource that respects the immense intersectionality of trans and gender nonconforming people's lives.  Finally a literary project that sincerely deserves the use of the term 'Groundbreaking'." -Imani Henry, Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC), focusing on national organizing of LGBT people and communities of color"For years I wondered how to create a one-stop-shop book for the trans community with all the basic info trans people would need.Trans Bodies, Trans Selveshas done it!" -Riki Wilchins, founder of GenderPAC and The Transexual Menace, and author ofQueer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer"Trans Bodies Trans Selvesis a remarkably timely and much needed book that brings together collaborators across the spectrum of transgender health, culture, and history.  At no other time has the transgender community been so poised to break out of its collective closet than now. It is vitally important to our communities of transgender people, advocates, and health care providers to have this volume of expertise at our fingertips. Dr. Erickson-Schroth has done us a great service by bringing together thoughtful thinkers and writers in the social and biological sciences to share complex knowledge that will empower each reader of this volume in new ways. Whether you are transgender, genderqueer, cis, scholar, health-care provider, social service provider, policy-maker, loved one, or other interested ally, you will find mind-opening and practical information and perspectives in this groundbreaking collection." -Jack Pula, MD, co-chair of the APA NY District Branch Committee on LGBT issues"It's impossible to make informed decisions about one's life in the absence of information. Happily, trans people now have a wealth of information in the form ofTrans Bodies, Trans Selves." -Dallas Denny, Founding Director of the American Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS), past editor of Chrysalis Quarterly and Transgender Tapestry, and former director of the Fantasia Fair"There has never been a book just likeTrans Bodies, Trans Selves. More than a medical textbook, much more than any individual's autobiography, this anthology of transgender health and history is personalized with interviews covering every point on the spectrum of transgender experience. Transgender and gender nonconforming persons will read this book and see stories directly relevant to their own lives.  Others who read with a desire to learn about the experience of transgender life - for that is the correct term, 'life' not 'lifestyle' - will not be disappointed.  People who said 'I have never met a transgender person'  may feel they have met many of us in the pages of this book. [R]ecommended for everyone who wants to understand this wonderful, brave, diverse group called 'transgender.'" -Rebecca Allison, MD, past President of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality"TBTSis brimming with straightforward information about living a life as a gender-nonconforming person in the United States...illuminating even for people who are already well-informed... "  --The New Republic