Transexuals: Life From Both Sides [Paperback]

Lynn Hubschman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078818749X | ISBN-13: 978-0788187490 | Publication Date: January 1, 2000

Brings needed info. about the world of the transsexual (TR) to all those who are interested: to the spectator who wishes to know more, to the gender confused, to the transgender person who has set upon this path, to their families & friends, & to professionals who wish to deepen their understanding or perhaps to learn the many practical ways to help the TR. Hubschman has counseled TR for decades, & discusses the history & definition of TR'm., along with standards for surgery & med. proced., & legal issues. First-person accounts from people who are TR -- post-operative males & females -- & their families. Color photos of TR, & reconstructed genitalia.

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About the Author

Lynn Hubschman ACSW is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and its Graduate School of Social Work. She was Director of Social Work at AmericaÂ’s oldest hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, PA where this surgery has been performed since its inception in the U.S. She has written innumerable articles and lectured and taught worldwide. Lynn has appeared on most TV talk shows, often with her transgendered clients. She is the author of Hospital Social Work Practice

Product Details

• Paperback: 279 pages
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078818749X
• ISBN-13: 978-0788187490
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,244,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Insights To Understanding Transsexualism in Families, March 13, 2001

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This review is from: Transexuals: Life From Both Sides (Paperback)

Lynn Hubschman provides an open forum for discussion of transsexualism by providing the reader with honest and sincere coming out letters and responses by family members and transsexuals.Handled with candor and genuineness, this book takes on a mind of its own.It provides the reader with helpful information, a human struggle of aligning the body with the mind, soul, and heart on the path toward wholeness.It also shows the frustrations and challenges the family faces in not conforming to society and its linear western values and thinking.This book is a perfect accompaniment to the must read Mildred Brown book, True Selves.These two books go hand in hand.Awareness and becoming ones true self thus is possible.This is a must read.This book also provides medical, legal, and other resources in the latter half of the book.This will also help the transsexual himself or herself, in the coming out process, and even provide a sense of understanding that this is a gender awareness issue and not one of sexual orientation.This Awareness of difference, will provide society toward education,toward discussion, and hopefully one day acceptance, and tolerance of those different than mainstream society.Kudos to Lynn Hubschman for providing an open discussion of the human side of a hidden subject: transsexualism.A book that will touch your heart, your mind, and make you question what gender truly is and means.