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In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a
compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences
of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and
social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they
come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do
their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for
everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent
years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of
transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday
and significant events that coalesce into trans identities,
culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men's
own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood,
adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and
lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men.
With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first
century debates of identity politics and community-building and
provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his
research.
We all encounter others whose gender identities differ from our
own, whether it is in the classroom, in public, in the media or
online. For many, there is anxiety about which words to use in
conversation and sometimes people keep quiet so as to not offend
someone whose gender identity may not be readily discernible, when
in actuality, what they desire is to understand, learn, and
interact. This book offers practical research-based strategies for
expanding personal, social and political awareness about
gender-identity privileges - helping the reader to work through
fears and unpack ingrained communication patterns and language. In
order to better understand the ever-evolving landscape of gender
identity the authors provide historical and political background
for the transgender movement and consider how issues of age,
culture, race, social class, media, celebrity and religion affect
transgender identities. The book includes a glossary of key terms,
a foreword from leading transgender rights activist, Jamison Green,
and an afterword by Meredith Talusan, Contributing Editor at them.
Written for educators and individuals committed to learning about
changes and shifts in gender identities, this book gives grounded,
real-time, practical and solution-oriented ideas and language about
how to be a better communicator, listener and responder to trans
and non-binary gender identities.
We all encounter others whose gender identities differ from our
own, whether it is in the classroom, in public, in the media or
online. For many, there is anxiety about which words to use in
conversation and sometimes people keep quiet so as to not offend
someone whose gender identity may not be readily discernible, when
in actuality, what they desire is to understand, learn, and
interact. This book offers practical research-based strategies for
expanding personal, social and political awareness about
gender-identity privileges - helping the reader to work through
fears and unpack ingrained communication patterns and language. In
order to better understand the ever-evolving landscape of gender
identity the authors provide historical and political background
for the transgender movement and consider how issues of age,
culture, race, social class, media, celebrity and religion affect
transgender identities. The book includes a glossary of key terms,
a foreword from leading transgender rights activist, Jamison Green,
and an afterword by Meredith Talusan, Contributing Editor at them.
Written for educators and individuals committed to learning about
changes and shifts in gender identities, this book gives grounded,
real-time, practical and solution-oriented ideas and language about
how to be a better communicator, listener and responder to trans
and non-binary gender identities.
At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and
gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible
Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved
resource for trans people and their allies. Since the first
edition's publication, author Jamison Green's writings and advocacy
among business and governmental organizations around the world have
led to major changes in the fields of law, medicine, and social
policy, and his (mostly invisible) work has had significant effects
on trans people globally. This new edition captures the changes of
the last two decades, while also imparting a message of
self-acceptance and health. With profoundly personal and eminently
practical threads, Green clarifies transgender experience for
transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers.
Medical and mental health care providers, educators, business
leaders, and advocates seeking information about transgender
concerns can all gain from Green's integrative approach to the
topic. This book candidly addresses emotional relationships that
are affected by a transition, and brings refined integrity to the
struggle to self-define, whether one undergoes a transition or
chooses not to. Emphasizing the lives of transgender men-who are
often overlooked-he elucidates the experience of masculinity in a
way that is self-assured and inclusive of feminist values. Green's
inspirational wisdom has informed and empowered thousands of
readers. There is still no other book like Becoming a Visible Man
in the transgender canon.
In this extraordinary book, based on 150 in-depth interviews, Lori
B. Girshick, a sociologist and social justice activist, brings
together the voices of sex- and gender-diverse people who speak
with absolute candor about their lives. Girshick presents
transpeople speaking in their own voices about identity, coming
out, passing, sexual orientation, relationship negotiations and the
dynamics of attraction, homophobia (including internalized fears),
and bullying. She exposes the guilt and the shame that "gender
police" use in their attempts to exert control and points out the
many ways transpeople are discriminated against in daily life, from
filling out identification documents to gender-segregated
bathrooms.
By showing us a variety of descriptions of diverse real lives and
providing a thorough exploration of the embodied experiences of
gender variant people, Girshick demonstrates that there is nothing
inherently binary about gender, and that the way each of us
experiences our own gender is, in fact, normal and natural.
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