Title: Transgender care
First published: 1997
Description: "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. They propose a new professional role, that of "Gender Specialist.""--BOOK JACKET.

"The book contains a wealth of practical information and accounts of people's experiences about coming out to one's employer or to one's friends or spouse. Several essays spell out the legal rights of transgender people with regard to insurance, work, marriage, and the use of rest rooms."--BOOK JACKET. "The second part of the book consists of thirteen essays on a range of controversial topics."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Transsexuals, Medical care, Mental health services, Transgender people, Cultural Diversity, Health Services, Transsexualism, Hormones, Patient Care, Adolescent, Mental Health, General Surgery, Psychological Phenomena and Processes, Surgical Specialties, Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services, Psychological Sexual Dysfunctions, Age Groups, Health, Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists, Culture, Therapeutics, Medicine, Persons, Chemicals and Drugs, Sexual and Gender Disorders, Psychiatry and Psychology, Health Care, Cultural Anthropology, Population Characteristics, Sociology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Analytical, Physiological Effects of Drugs, Social Sciences, Named Groups, Pharmacologic Actions, Mental Disorders, Health Occupations, Anthropology, Chemical Actions and Uses, Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena, Disciplines and Occupations, HEALTH & FITNESS, Health Care Issues, MEDICAL, Public Health, Health Policy, Diseases, General, Health Care Delivery, Social Medicine, Health & Biological Sciences
LC classification: RA564.9.T73 I87 1997