Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men
by Lori B. Girshick
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Author: Lori B. GirshickContributor: Jamison Green
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-30
ISBN: 158465645X
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: UPNE
Book Reviews of Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men
Book Review: great clarification
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is an excellent clarification of cross-dressing versus trans-gender. It investigates personal accounts of TG transition M2F and F2M including some personal accounts and problems encountered. I found it most useful to explain why SSS and similar X-dressing support groups discourage transitioned persons from participating. Until reading this book I had no idea there were such limits. X-dressers and Trans people have different objectives which are mutually exclusive.
Summary of Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men
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.This book offers a revealing look at the lives and perspectives of transgender and gender variant people, based on 150 personal interviews.Transgender Books
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