Trans People in Love

Name: Trans People in Love
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780789035714
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Trans People in Love is an illuminating resource that explores the experience of love and relationships within the trans community. It offers insights into the beauty and complexities that trans identity brings to romantic partnerships and highlights the skills and mindsets required to build positive, fulfilling relationships. The book emphasises that trans people at all stages of transition can establish stable and emotionally and physically satisfying bonds.
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This book is ideal for trans individuals and their partners and families, as well as professionals including sexologists, therapists, psychologists, social workers, medical doctors, educators, students, and anyone interested in understanding trans relationships deeply.

Offers insight into the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to relationships, the skills needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in various stages of transition can create loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.

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Trans People in Love is an illuminating resource for members of the trans community and their partners and families; gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and intersex people; sexologists; sex therapists; counsellors; psychologists; psychotherapists; social workers; psychiatrists; medical doctors; educators; students; and couples and family therapists.

Trans People in Love provides a forum for the experience of being in love and in relationships with significant others for members of the trans community. This honest and respectful volume tells clinicians, scholars, and trans people themselves of the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to a romantic relationship. It highlights what skills and mindsets are needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in all stages of transition can create stable and loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

DIVA Magazine calls it 'a community resource to be treasured,' while g3 Magazine praises it as 'engaging, warm, intelligent and educational.' Out in the City describes the book as 'groundbreaking' and 'long overdue,' shedding light on often stigmatised relationships. curve celebrates it as 'honest, moving, irreverent, sexy, passionate, funny and sad' and a 'must-read' for its candid and thorough examination from lived experiences.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780789035714

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 June 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Tracie O'Keefe
Edited by Katrina Fox
Edited by Tracie O'Keefe
Edited by Katrina Fox

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 542g

Pages: 312

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Tracie O'Keefe, DCH, is a clinical hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, counselor, and sex therapist, originally from London, England. Since 2001, she has lived and practiced in Sydney, Australia. She is a trans woman who transitioned over thirty-five years ago and now runs the Australian Health & Education Centre, Sydney. She is a member of theWorld Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), Australian Association of Sex, Educators, Researchers and Therapists (ASSERT), and registered with the Psychotherapy and Counseling Federation of Australia (PACFA). Dr. O'Keefe is the author of many papers and articles on sex, gender, and sexuality diversity, coauthor of Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference, the author of Sex, Gender&Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations, and the co-editor of Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex & Gender Diversity, an anthology of real-life stories by sex- and gender-diverse people. She is also the author of Investigating Stage Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis for Life: Mind, Body, and Spiritual Excellence. In addition to being a clinician and writer, Dr. O'Keefe is also a passionate campaigner for the rights of sex- and gender-diverse people. She was a founding member of lobby group Sex and Gender Education (SAGE) in Australia (www.sageaustralia.org) where she serves on its steering committee and can often be found educating bureaucrats and government officials regarding discriminatory laws and policies against trans people. More info at www.tracieokeefe.com. Katrina Fox is a freelance journalist, writing predominantly for the GLBTIQ press. She is the editor of CHERRIE, a monthly magazine for lesbian and queer women in Australia and writes regularly for SX, a weekly arts, news, and entertainment magazine for the GLBTIQ community in Sydney, including a column "Keeping Abreast". Her work has also appeared in DIVA, the UK's national lesbian magazine, and Curve, a U.S. national lesbian magazine. She is the co-author of Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference, the editor of Sex, Gender&Sexuality, and co-editor of Finding the Real Me. More info at www.katrinafox.com.