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Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery

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I read this book, but as a cross dresser, I did not find answers for me in this book. I found it informative about the many diverse classifications of transgenderism. I would not suggest this for a transgendered person to find help, but I would suggest it for a person trying to learn about transgenderism and it's many facits. I found many of the statements in the book to come from the psychiatric community, not from transgenderd people themselves. It is a book looking in, not a book from within.

I bed to differ with the first review. About half the chapters were written by transgendered and transsexual people.

Trans authors include Stephen Whittle,Aaron Devor, Ariadne Kane, Virginia Prince, Jayne Thomas, Holly Boswell, Miqqi Gilbert, Lisa Middleton, Michelle Kammerer, Winnie Brant, Nancy Naneroni, Yvonne Cook-Riley, Lynn Harris, Kymberleigh Richards, Rupert Raj, Jan Roberts, myself, and, I believe some others (I'm not sure how the identify). Several other chapters were written by significant others of transgendered people.

The purpose of the conference that was the basis for the book was to bring together academics, transpeople, and supporters, and the book certainly reflects that.

Here's the table of contents:

1. The Emergence of the Transgender Phenomenon

Transforming Transvestism and Transsexualism: Polarity, Politics, and Gender - Anne Bolin

Transgender: Some Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Contemporary Models and Methods of Coping and Treatment - Dallas Denny

Transgender Coming Out: Implications for the Clinical Management of Gender Dysphoria - Walter O. Bockting

The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression - Holly Boswell

Beyond Appearances: Gendered Rationality and the Transgendered - Michael A. Gilbert

2. Transsexual Research and Comment

Narrating Ourselves: Duped or Duplicitous - Karen Nakamura

More Than Manly Women: How Female-to_Male Transsexuals Reject Lesbian Identities - Holly Devor

Self-Testing: A Check on Sexual Identity and Other Levels of Sexuality - Milton Diamond

Multiple Personality Order: A Response to Trauma and the Development of the Cross-Gender Experience - William A. Henkin

Dissociation as a Defense against Ego-Dystonic Transsexualism - David Seil

Feminist and Lesbian Opinions about Transsexuals - Monica Kendel, Holly Devor, and Nancy Strapko

3. Men Who Cross-Dress

Development of the Cross-Gender Lifestyle: Comparisons of Cross-Gendered Men with Heterosexual Controls - Mary Hogan-Finlay, Nicholas P. Spanos, and Bill Jones

Men Who Cross-Dress: A Survey - Bonnie Bullough and Vern Bullough

Culturally Universal Aspects of Male Homosexual Transvestites and Transsexuals - Frederick L. Whitam

The Transvestite's Lover: Identity and Behavior - Jacobo Schifter and Johnny Madrigal

4. Insights from History and Anthropology

The Gender Heresy of Akhenaten - Winnie Brant

The Gynemimetic Shaman: Evolutionary Origins of Male Sexual Inversion and Associated Talent - William Dragoin

The Balkan Sworn Virgin: A Traditional European Transperson - Mildren Dickemann

Wagner's "Letters to a Seamstress": Cross-Dressing, Egoism, and Polymorphous Perversity - Michael Saffle

A Historical Perspective of Christine Jorgensen and the Development of an Identity - Linda Heidenreich

5. Literary Treatment of the Phenomenon of Cross-Dressing

Saving Their Own Selves; Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing as a Means of Survival for Married Women in Two English plays - Keith Dorwick

"This Strange Way of Meeting": Theatricality and the New Woman in Hardy's The Return of the Native - Lisa Nakamura

The Boys Don't Count: Or Why Won't Shakespeare Put His Men in Dresses? - Lynn M. Thompson

"Just Man Enough to Play the Boy": Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Mid-Victorian England - Ellen Bayuk Rosenbaum

6. The Changing Face of the Transgender Community - Mariette Pathy Allen

7. Standards of Care

Results of a Questionnaire on the Standards of care of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association - Dallas Denny and Jan Roberts

Revision of the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care in Progress - Friedemann Pfafflin

SRS Tomorrow: The Physical Continuum - Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni

Sex Reassignment Surgery in Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Client Satisfaction in Relation to Selection Criteria - Janis R. Walworth

8. Counseling and Treatment

Current State of Transsexual Surgery: A Brief Overview - Stanley H. Biber

Transsexualism in China in 1995 - Xia Zhaoji and Wang Chuanmin, Reported by Vern Bullough

Patterns in and Treatments for Gender Dysphoria - Gretchen Finke and Roger Northway

The Hotline Call, or "How to Do a Year's Psychotherapy in Thirty Minutes or less" - Yvonne Cook-Riley

Religion and Cross-Gender Behavior: Wellspring of Hope or Swamp of Despair? - Kathryn J. Helms

The Use of Dance/Movement in the Adjustment to a New Gender Role - Jayne Thomas and Annette Cardona

Gender Attitude Reassessment Program (GARP) - Ariadne Kane

9. Law and Legal Issues

Law and Transsexualism - Louis H. Swartz

Legislating for Transsexual Rights: A Prescriptive Form - Stephen Whittle

Cross-Dressing in the United Kingdom: The Law - Richard Green

Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care - Lisa Middleton

10. Personal Observations
Seventy Years in the Trenches of the Gender Wars - Virginia Prince

Fighting the Battles - Michele Kammerer

Metamorphosis: Man in the Making (A Personal and Political Perspective) - Rupert Raj

The Inner Dimensions of Gender Transformation - Lee Etscovitz

Transsexuality and Religion: A Personal Journey - Karen F. Kroll

A Legal path of Androgyny - Lynn Edward Harris

What is a Transgenderist? - Kymberleigh Richards

Appendix: Standards of Care