True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals
by Mildred L. Brown, Chloe Ann Rounsley
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Author: Chloe Ann Rounsley, Mildred L. BrownEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-24
ISBN: 0787967025
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Book Review: 10 CONDITIONS THAT DO NOT QUALIFY AS TRANSSEXUALISM
Summary: 4 Stars
Mildred L. Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism
--For Families, Friends, Coworkers,
and Helping Professionals
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996) 271 pages
(ISBN: 0-7879-0271-3; hardback)
(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.9.B76 1996)
Mildred Brown is a California therapist
who has spent more than 20 years
working with transsexuals and their families
--more than 400 transsexuals in all.
She remains positive, affirming, & accepting thru-out.
Brown is convinced that transsexualism is "a medical condition",
not a psychological or psychiatric problem.
She accepts the belief that transsexuals were born that way.
True Selves is written mainly for laypeople
--transsexuals themselves, their families and friends,
coworkers, & helping professionals
who have dealt with few or no transsexuals before.
The main chapters cover:
childhood; teen years; adulthood; therapy;
explaining the sex-change to co-workers, friends, & family;
& medical and surgical helps.
Altho she overwhelmingly believes transsexuals
who tell her that they were born into the wrong bodies,
she has encountered people
who have "other conditions and problems"
who are "not transsexuals at all".
She gives one page (106-107)
to listing the following 10 conditions,
which do not qualify as transsexualism:
1. Gay men and lesbians who confuse
their sexual orientation with the desire to change sex.
2. Cross-dressers who discover
that they enjoy the clothes of the other sex so much
that they want to become the other sex.
3. Men and women who are uncomfortable
with the gender-personalities and sex-roles
assigned by society because of their sex.
4. Men with severe erection problems:
Because they cannot have sex as men,
some want to become woman.
5. Victims of sexual assault or abuse,
who therefore want to distance themselves as much as possible
from the bodies in which they were victimized.
If one result of the sexual abuse is that
they cannot function sexually as the sex in which they were born,
they hope that becoming the other sex
will put all the trauma behind them.
6. Persons who dislike the behavior
they have fallen into in their original sex
--eg rape, child-molestation, exhibitionism,
and other anti-social or criminal behavior.
They want to get rid of the parts of their bodies
--usually penises--that have led them astray.
7. Criminals who wish to change their identities
to escape capture by the police.
8. Munchausen syndrome:
People who crave medical attention,
even tho there is nothing wrong with them.
9. Individuals with psychiatric disorders,
who have delusions that they are the other sex.
10. Individuals with multiple personality disorder.
At least one personality believes it is the other sex.
But a sex-change could create serious problems
for the other personalities.
True Selves contains lots of practical advice
concerning all of the problems transsexuals will encounter
in the process of changing to the other sex:
announcing one's plans to family, friend, & co-workers,
being re-trained to behave as the other sex,
hormonal and surgical procedures, & financial problems.
Altho this book does not advance
our scientific understanding of transsexualism,
it does deal comprehensively and compassionately
with the day-to-day problems encountered by people
who are changing from one sex to the other.
If you would like to discover similar books, search the Internet for:
"BOOKS ON TRANSSEXUALISM".
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