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The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender Paperback – January 1, 1991

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"The Uninvited Dilemma" is different from the autobiographies and clinical studies on transsexuality. It represents two years of research involving carefully structured, in-depth personal interviews with seventy-five transsexuals, consultations with members of the medical and mental health communities, and conversations with loved ones of transsexuals. This book will give you an understanding of the true nature of transsexuality. It is a remarkable reading experience for all who are interested in the human condition and and exploration of the most fundamental aspect of our humanity.

Print length

188 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Metamorphous Pr
Publication date

January 1, 1991
Dimensions

6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1555520138
ISBN-13

978-1555520137
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"The author is to be commended for presenting a balanced, complete picture of the subject, appealing to a broad segment of the reading public." - Dr. George P. Fulmer, Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, S.F., CA

"We recommend your book to everyone who contacts us. You present one of the best overviews of the issues I have seen without becoming so clinical that a layperson cannot understand the material . . . We feel very fortunate that "The Uninvited Dilemma" is available as a resource. Thank you for writing it." - Jennifer York, Ph.D., Ingersoll GEnder Center, Seattle, WA

"This is an excellent survey of the transsexual population and should be required reading for helping professionals . . . For the transsexual, the book contains a good deal of 'how to' information and provides a community of experiences to which one can relate in a positive fashion." - B.A. Lind, Outreach Newsletter END -- Publisher Comments

About the Author

Ms. Stuart was born and raised in Oakland CA and attended local schools and a nearby university. She has four children, all of whom are now adults.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Metamorphous Pr; Revised, Subsequent edition (January 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1555520138
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1555520137
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Jessica

The uninvited dilemma is a breath of fresh air.

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2004

I found the book to be thoroughly thought out and genuine. It truly answered many of my question where other books on the subject failed to answer.
I feel this book is a must for anyone who questions there gender and is looking for direct and to the point answers.
The writer took great pains to retain the authenticity of the interviews she held.

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JRK

Excellent Overview

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2008

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The 'Uninvited Dilemma, A Question of Gender' is a compilation of responses to questionnaires filled out by transgender individuals. As such it is not the best book for those trying to find their way if they are transgender or for finding advice or guidance. However, it does give a lot of insight into those who are transgender and how some have felt about their transgenderism or their transsexuality. In this regard it can be helpful to compare one's own feelings and experiences with those interviewed for the book.

Not everything in this book pertains to anyone who is transgender and it tends to reflect those with the most serious internal feelings, but overall it is an excellent glimpse into what others have experienced or feel about their transgenderism.

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Karen

Please: less opinion, more research!

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2010

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Touted as a researched look into transexuality, the text is supposedly informed by the results of over 70 interviews with transexuals. Setting aside the problems with sample size...there are thousands of us in North America, some who have had surgery and many more who have not...the information gleaned from her interviews appears superficial at best. Her questionnaire, reprinted at the end of the book, illustrates the principle: never chase a fact with your interviewee. If her subjects did respond in depth, there is little here of those responses. Mostly, what we get are the author's opinions, illustrated with meager sprinklings of testimony from the real experts, her interviewees.

Some transexuals, many, I suspect, will seriously question her opinions in support of such ideas as "Transexuals should submit to anywhere up to three years of psychotherapy before qualifying even for hormone treatment." A reading of Deidre McClusky's "Crossing," reports in skin-crawling detail the dangers, horrors, even, of submitting to examination by these smugly self-satisfied experts.

She gives very short shrift to the argument that transexuals who are adult, mentally stable and competent should be the ones to control their lives. "Most post-op transexuals," she claims, would agree that they should not. She cites a single case of a transexual who sought surgery and then later regretted it. Such "tragedies," she says, must be avoided at all cost, ignoring the fact that less than one percent of transexuals who do have surgery experience any regrets about their transition at all.

In short, expect nothing but orthodoxy here, in the treatment of transexuals. Their own voices are scarcely heard. It's hard to believe that she really listened.

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J. LUND

Food for thought

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2013

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This book offers ample thought-provoking discussion of the struggle of transgender individuals in the American culture. Well worth the read.

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Chrys

Good basics, but slightly out of date

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2003

I was at first disappointed to discover that the book I had just purchased was 12 years old. So some of the terminology no longer is in use and some theories have been either refuted or more warmly embraced by the TG community in the years since this book was published. New theories have emerged that were not even discussed in this book, understandably.
However, her methodology and findings appear to be quite sound and have stood the test of time. Some ideas she proposes, which may have been unique or relatively fresh at the time, have now come to be common knowledge or understanding.
However, so much of what is in this book exists in greater detail in other, more updated books. I would recommend this for those wanting a comparative look back in time, but I believe more current publications would be much more beneficial to most readers.

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Samantha A. Perrin

The Uninvited Dilemma - A Review

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2005

Right up front the author says, "This book is about transsexuals." She then goes on to state, "The subject has received widespread publicity; but despite the headlines, little is known about the condition by the general public..."
Starting off with a set of definitions and descriptions she painstakingly stakes out her grounds for discussion and then carefully and methodically attempts to correct the misconceptions and to debunk the myths surrounding transsexualism. The early chapters of the book deal with the problems and experiences of transsexuals from the early years to adulthood. The final chapters deal primarily with the conclusions reached as a result of her research and the many interviews she conducted. Although the period covered by her work is now almost twenty years old, some of her comments are timeless, being equally relevant to today's world as it was in the 1990's. For example, in Chapter 4 she states in part, "Certainly a society which can find its way to the moon and back has the ability to find fair, discrete, and equitable ways of helping a very small percentage of individuals cope with personal dilemmas without destroying their careers and human dignity. We have become such a wasteful, throwaway society, it comes as a shock to learn the price we pay when we squander our natural resources. Although we are sometimes our own worst enemy, human beings - men and women - are our most precious natural resource. Just as we exact a toll on the quality of our life when we carelessly trash our environment, society pays dearly when we heedlessly toss about human lives as if they were empty, used up cans and bottle."
Despite the fact that the book claims to be about transsexuals, a careful reading of the author's definitions, so important to an understanding of this work, it is equally about transgender persons, a term in use today which was not used when the book was written.

This book is a fascinating read which challenges us all to reevaluate our thoughts on gender. I recommended it highly to all who seek answers to problems associated with trans phenomena; transsexuals, transgenders, their families, their friends, service professionals, and the public in general.

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