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Transgender Resources & Reading List

• Children's National Medical Center (D.C.) :
  Parent's Guide to Childhood Gender Variance
• Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association's
  Standards of Care For Gender Identity Disorders (Sixth Version, Feb. 2001)
• World Professional Association For Transgender Health (formerly Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association)
• Parents and Friends of Gays and Lesbians
• International Foundation for Gender Education
• Sex Change Indigo Pages
• FTM International

Counseling Resources in Los Angeles

• Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center (low cost individual therapy and support groups): 323-993-7400
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles (no-fee gender clinic for counseling and medications for teens and young adults): 323-669-2390
• Los Angeles Gender Center

General Audience Introduction

• Brown Mildred L., Chloe Ann Rounsley. 1996. True Selves : Understanding Transsexualism. For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals.

Phenomenology/Natural History of GID

• Wallien, Madeleine S.C and Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis. 2008. Psychosexual outcomes of gender-dysphoric children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:1413-1423.
• Zucker, Kenneth J. and Susann J. Bradley. 1995. Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents. New York: Guilford Press.

Medical & Hormonal Treatment

• Transgendercare.com
• van Kesteren PJ, Asscheman H, Megens JA, Gooren LJ.  1997. Mortality and morbidity in transsexual subjects treated with cross-sex hormones.  Clinical Endocrinology (Oxf.) 47:337-42.
• Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T., van Goozen SH.  1997. Sex reassignment of adolescent transsexuals: a follow-up study.  J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 36:263-71.
• Möller, Birgit, Herbert Schreier, Alice Li and Georg Romer. 2009. Gender Identity Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care 39: 117-143.
• Murad MH, Elamin MB, Garcia MZ, Mullan RJ, Murad A, Erwin PJ, Montori VM. 2009.   Hormonal therapy and sex reassignment: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and psychosocial outcomes.   Clin Endocrinol. [Epub]

Current Literature

• IJT (International Journal of Transsexualism) http://www.symposion.com/ijt

Reference Texts

• Blanchard, Ray and Betty W. Steiner (Editors). 1990. Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adults (Clinical Practice, No 14).
• Bockting, Walter O. and Eli Coleman. 1993. Gender Dysphoria : Interdisciplinary Approaches in Clinical Management. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, Vol. 5.

Female-to-Male

• Devor, Holly. 1997. FTM. Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society. Bloomington: Indiana Univeristy Press.
• Drummond KD, Bradley SJ, Peterson-Badali M, Zucker KJ. 2008. A follow-up study of girls with gender identity disorder. Dev Psychol . 44(1):34-45.
• Lothstein, Leslie.  1983.  Female-to-Male Transsexualism:  Historical, Clinical and Theoretical  Issues.  Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• Rosario, Vernon. 1996. "Trans [Homo] Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion, and Hetero-Hegemony." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transsexual Anthology, ed. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, 35-51. New York: New York University Press.

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