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Transsexuals: Life from Both Sides
Paperback, 277 Pages, DIANE Publishing Company,
April 2000
ISBN: 078818749X
Author: Lynn Hubschman, ACSW
Subject: Transsexuals
Summary
Transsexuals – Life From Both Sides is a newly released 279-page book, which includes everything needed to learn about the transgendered person and the people who love them.
The first half of the book covers first person accounts of both male to female and female to male individuals with short pieces written by family members. The range of life situation, education, and age is varied. The second half addresses the format that most individuals follow leading to surgery. The criteria, therapeutic experience, relationships, legal issues, workplace situations, and the descriptions of the variety of surgical procedures are written in detail in understandable language.
Worldwide resources are listed including background information on surgeons who perform the operations. The end of the book includes photographs of completed surgical procedures from a wide variety of surgeons.
This book can be beneficially used by patients, their families, interested students, and a wide range of professionals including therapists, physicians, schools, nurses, hospital personnel, libraries for reference and anyone interested in gender issues.
The author, Lynn Hubschman, has over thirty years experience working with transgendered individuals and their families.
She was Director of Social Work at the oldest hospital in America; Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Transsexual surgery has been performed there since the surgery’s inception in the United States. She has written numerous articles, and presented papers at conferences and wrote, “Hospital Social Work Practice.”
In addition she regularly appears on many national talk programs about this topic. Mrs. Hubschman has been in a private counseling practice dealing primarily with marriage and family concerns for over thirty years. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and its graduate school of Social Work.
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