This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered and transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views assessment and treatment through a nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity and acknowledges the role of oppression in the developmental process of gender identity formation. Specific sections address the needs of gender-variant people as well as transgendered children and youth. The issues facing gender-variant populations who have not been the focus of clinical care - such as intersexed people, female-to-male transgendered people, and those who identify as bigendered - are also addressed.

This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered and transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views assessment and treatment through a nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity and acknowledges the role of oppression in the developmental process of gender identity formation. Specific sections address the needs of gender-variant people as well as transgendered children and youth. The issues facing gender-variant populations who have not been the focus of clinical care - such as intersexed people, female-to-male transgendered people, and those who identify as bigendered - are also addressed.