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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

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 PT, van Goozen SH.  1997. Sex reassignment of adolescent transsexuals: a follow-up study.  J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 36:263-71.

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

Current Literature

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

General audience introduction

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

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.

Male-to-Female

• Lothstein, Leslie.  (1983).  Female-to-Male Transsexualism:  Historical, Clinical and Theoretical  Issues.  Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• Devor, Holly.  1997. FTM.  Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society.  Bloomington: Indiana Univeristy Press.
• 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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