I have read 'Transgender Emergence', twice, and reference it often. Aimed at clinicians and other therapists, but in lay terms which makes it a valuable tool and resource for anyone interested in transgender. Part primer for the curious.

Cited in Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue.

This was a helpful starting point, though it's definitely an older book. I'll be on the lookout for more updated books with similar focuses

This book helped me understand the kinds of things that transgender people deal with. It also made me realize that it's practically impossible to generalize about transgender people, since generalizing would require making assumptions that are most likely untrue of any given individual. For many people, gender is not binary, it's fluid or it's on a spectrum or it's standing on its head or it's complicated. Transgender people endure a great deal of misunderstanding, hostility, ridicule, stigma and discrimination. They stand where gay and lesbian people stood a generation or two ago. I think this is one of those cases where 'if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem,' so I would recommend it to anybody who wants to be part of the solution.

All that being said, the book's target audience is people who work in a therapeutic capacity with transgender people, which is not me. I learned a lot from it, but would have preferred a book with a more sociological slant. I also think the book, which was published in 2004, could use an update.

Needs to be updated, but still am amazing resource.

I haven't read it all, but it's very well written and one of the more complete looks at transgender life that I could find.

I'm glad I have this, but sad about the circumstances that brought it to me. My brother gave me a copy when he came out as transsexual, and it provided a lot of useful information that I have used as a therapist. I still miss my brother, and wish I could make him more a part of my life. I probably have more contact with him than my other siblings, and though I would like to have more contact with him, I worry about how it would affect my children.

A must read for therapists working with gender-varient clients.

I'm halfway through this book, and how far both clinical assessment and treatment have come, and how far we need to go, are so apparent. I find it to be well written and informative. Did anyone know that "...when all causes of intersex are considered, approximately 1.7 percent of all births are affected."? That's not a bad little army! Not that I'm organizing an uprising.....but get in touch with me if interested. Just saying.

Absolutely excellent. Besides a handful of odd grammar episodes and the controversy over intersexuality being in a transgender book and historical examples of transgenderism before the term was coined, this book was just about perfect. Beautifully researched and well expressed.