Trans People in Love

by O'Keefe; Tracie

• ISBN13: 9780789035714
• ISBN10: 0789035715
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Table of Contents

About the Editors	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Switcheroo	p. 1
My Desire to Be All Woman	p. 11
Our Trip to Vancouver	p. 19
To Fight, Live, and Love at the Gender Border	p. 31
Perfect Day	p. 43
A Transgressor's Love	p. 55
I'm Not a Lesbian, My Wife Is: Norms and Perceptions in a Trans Marriage	p. 63
Nick and Mark	p. 73
Beyond Gender and Sexuality	p. 83
From Russia With Love	p. 91
Queerly Beloved: How a Lesbian Love Survived Transition	p. 99
Sex and the Single Trannie	p. 111
Between Shows: A True Story	p. 123
To the Three Women I Loved in My Transgender Life	p. 133
Bodies May Lie but Hearts Never Do	p. 145
Satan and Lady Babalon: Polyamory Again at 64	p. 153
The Adventures of a Trans Man in Love, Sex, and Spirituality	p. 163
Eternity Fields of Yokatatumba	p. 175
My Husband Had a Sex Change-Shit Happens	p. 187
Things of His	p. 201
Love Lost and Found	p. 213
From Queer to Eternity	p. 227
Kayla and Laura	p. 237
Madam Carmen	p. 249
Still Queer After All These Years: Reflections on Being in a Trans Couple	p. 257
Notes for Trans People	p. 263
Notes for Therapists	p. 269
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