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True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals First Edition

by Mildred L. Brown (Author), Chloe Ann Rounsley (Author)

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Combines authoritative information and humanitarian insight into the transsexual experience

Filled with wisdom and understanding, this groundbreaking book paints a vivid portrait of conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis--and the courage they must summon as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and others. True Selves offers valuable guidance for those who are struggling to understand these people and their situations.

Using real life stories, actual letters, and other compelling examples, the authors give a clear understanding of what it means to be transsexual. They also give other useful advice, including how to deal compassionately with these commonly misunderstood individuals--by keeping an open heart, communicating fears, pain and support, respecting choices.

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January 1, 2003
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"I would strongly recommend this book as a primer for anyone interested in this topic." (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35:2)

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Filled with wisdom and understanding, True Selves paints a vivid portrait of the conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis — the courage they must summon as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and others. This classic resource offers valuable guidance for friends, families, coworkers, and professionals who are struggling to understand these people and their situations. Using real life stories, actual letters, and other compelling examples, True Selves gives a clear understanding of what it means to be transsexual and offers practical suggestions for dealing compassionately with these commonly misunderstood individuals.

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"True Selves is thorough and comprehensive. . . .This is a serious and important book. If you know a transsexual, care about a transsexual, or are interested in understanding transsexuality, True Selves should be on your reading list. "
The Transsexual New Telegraph

"The best popular introduction to transsexualism for all involved- transsexuals, soffas (significant others, family, friends, allies), and the professionals working with and serving them — is True Selves."
—The Independent Press Book Review

"First-person accounts from transsexuals augment general readability and put human faces on the issues discussed."
—Booklist

"Each chapter poses questions and confronts common misconceptions about transgendered people and offers recommendations to caregivers and family. . . . presented in a simple, straightforward style and is easy to understand."
—Gender Identity Journal

"With real life stories, letters, poems, and more, this is a first coming-out collection for the TS community."
—Feminist Bookstore News

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jossey-Bass Inc Pub; First Edition (January 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0787967025
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0787967024
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #731,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #571 in Medical Psychology of Sexuality
- #885 in Psychology & Counseling Books on Sexuality
- #1,360 in Psychology (Books)

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Being Jane

Also excellent for the Trans community!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2010

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This is one of the first books I read on my "yellow brick road." Even though it is written to families, friends and co-workers, I felt that Millie and Chloe Ann were writing directly to me. I was so touched by their insight into my life-long condition, struggle, and transition path that I repeatedly wanted to give them a big hug!

The quality of the manuscript is excellent. I was impressed with the organization and structure and how the content flowed. It reads well and is a book to which I am proud to point others, which I have often done!

Regarding the authors' emphasis on the Standards of Care, it is important for our friends and loved ones to know that we are following a proven protocol and not "out there" blazing our own trails. As I read the autobiographies by Donna Rose, Jennifer Boylan, Renee Richards, Deirdre McCloskey, Jan Morris and others, they so encouraged me that this is a mountain I can climb, a summit I can reach. Thankfully, there are exceptions to the norm where grace is extended but for the most part, whether MTF or FTM, there are milestones common to us in the transgender community as we cross over. "True Selves," with sensitivity, overlays those required steps on a timeline aided with professional medical support, known as the Standards of Care.

Our path is one of great courage as we forget what lies behind to lay hold of who we are. We must be willing to sacrifice everything in order to realize our dream and we need all the support we can get. This book provides a tremendous amount of support.

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Exceptional Book

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2008

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I purchased this book after a close family member announced that he was transsexual. I knew very little about transexualism and was spending hours online looking for any information I could find about it. This book was enormously helpful to me in learning about an experience I knew nothing about. I am encouraging members of my family to also read it as they like me want to understand to the best of our ability how to support our family member. The book is wonderfully organized starting with an explanation of terms (e.g. transsexual, transgendered, transvestite) then moving into a description about what transsexuals typically experience during their lives. Starting from childhood and moving through life stages, the authors provide a thoughtful and thorough explanation of what life often entails for transsexuals. The author's are very clear in saying when experiences are common to men or women, and take every effort to not overly generalize experiences across all transsexuals. The last few chapters of the book provide a helpful overview of the medical procedures some transsexuals choose to do and how and why they may or may not officially change their gender. I wish I could more eloquently describe how thorough and well written this book is but I hope that those reading this review can at least hear in my words how very helpful I have found this book. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand transexualism regardless of whether or not they personally know someone who is.

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Christina C.

Awesome book - best overview I have read

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2011

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Purchased this book to give to a friend in order to understand a little bit better about transsexuality. This book is pretty good in my opinion. Best one I have read on the subject with just the right balance between giving a good overview while digging a little deeper into most specific topic areas. No book on an extremely complex subject will win the votes of everyone, but this one is better than most. I would urge the few folks who provide their opinions about this book in a mainly negative light, to write and publish their own books. Portray things the way they see them themselves. They are clearly experts on the subject and not at all biased by their own experiences. I'm sure they would get the balance between objectivity and subjectivity perfectly balanced, and be open minded enough to accept that the thoughts, feelings and experiences of others might be subtly different, or totally different, to their own, and that there may be not one right answer about the whats's and why's about transsexuality, but many.
The reality is that nobody really knows why some people are transsexual. Many theories and opinions exist, but thus far unproven when scrutinized closely enough, and quite frankly, why does it matter? One thing's for sure, diversity in nature is normal, only the social construct of western European influenced human societies renders things that don't exactly fit the pre-decided cookie cutter mold, to be abnormal, and a threat to the authorized version of normal. - It really is total BS.

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Sonnenblume

Transsexualismus verstehen

Reviewed in Germany on January 15, 2013

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"True selves" ist ein hervorragend geschriebenes Buch, um den Unterschied zwischen Transvestität und Transsexualismus zu verstehen. Aber auch andere Formen von Sexualität, die leider in unserer Gesellschaft nicht erwünscht und somit diskriminiert werden oder todgeschwiegen werden, sind verständnisvoll erklärt. Wenn man dieses Buch liest, versteht man, wie sich ein Junge oder Mädchen fühlt, wenn es im falschen Körper geboren wird und sich den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen entsprechend zu verhalten hat. Durch viele Tatsachenberichte, wo sich so wohl männl. als auch weibl. Transsexuelle outen erhält man einen Einblick in deren Gefühlswelt. Auch habe ich erfahren, dass bereits während der Entwicklung im Mutterleib ca. in der achten Woche das Geschlecht festgelegt wird u.es dort durch Hormone zu Fehlsteuerungen kommt u. deshalb ein Mädchen z.B. im Jungskörper leben muss. Wie ihnen dort rausgeholfen wird erfährt man u. wie glücklich sich diejenigen schätzen, die den schweren Weg der Geschlechtsumwandlung vollzogen haben b.z.w. was der Weg ist. Leider ist dieses von einem amerikanischen Sexualtherapeuten geschriebene Buch noch nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt wurden. Man kann es Lehrern, Erziehern, Psychologen, Therapeuten und Ärzten aber auch allen, die davon betroffen sind nur empfehlen. Es ist Ratgeber und Lehrbuch zugleich. Danke, eine aufgeklärte Mutter

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JMP

A must for anyone trying to understand how it feels to be born into the wrong body

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2008

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This is a wonderful, informative resource - the best of its kind on the market at the moment, imho. It should be read by medical professionals, particularly those working with transgendered/transsexual youngsters and adults, by school teachers, social workers, etc., as well as by families and friends who want to understand how their loved one feels and to help them in their struggle to be who they truly are. I can't recommend this highly enough; I've bought several copies, for all of the above, to help them see how living with this condition really is for my young daughter - and it has.

Andre

Easy to understand and the most informative book I have ...

Reviewed in Canada on June 1, 2016

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Very well written. Easy to understand and the most informative book I have read on the subject

Kes

Well written and informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2013

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This book has all the information you copuld possibly need on the subject and is sensitively written and easy to read

CynthiaF

Great Book, Easy Read

Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2016

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Great book, simply presented and a good read for those looking to understand the spectrum of Trans persons.

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