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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities by Laura Erickson-Schroth
grace_b_3's review
This is a dense book. It’s designed so that you can jump around from topic to topic. It’s very informative.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Medical content
andiejaynephd's review against another edition
5.0
An exhaustive resource
An exhaustive resource for any trans ally, anyone questioning their gender, anyone trans individual looking for resources or information. I found great value in the information found within its pages.
An exhaustive resource for any trans ally, anyone questioning their gender, anyone trans individual looking for resources or information. I found great value in the information found within its pages.
keegan53's review against another edition
A great book, but not really meant to be read cover-to-cover. Much better as a reference material as it contains a lot of information on many different specific topics
kimbabooks's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent resource, written with the same intention as the well-known ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’... in which the information & perspectives being offered come from the people most affected.
paigemcloughlin's review against another edition
5.0
Fairly wide-ranging covering almost every trans issue. From history, biology, social aspects, sex, families, law, medicine. I wish there was more science but it had to cover a lot of topics. A very good resource for Trans folks.
vagaybond's review against another edition
5.0
Over the past several years I've been reading different parts of it in excerpts, in libraries, when reading from a friend's bookshelf, etc.
I am a trans, genderqueer person who has dealt with a lot of stuff. I have been homeless thrice, in and out of psychiatric hospital visits and have dealt with all sorts of abuses.
I have lived through corrective rape from an abusive relationship, attempted murder via a parent, being told by medical staff my gender is a delusion/"attention-seeking behaviour" and forced to leave hospital premises by security because my pleading for psychiatric help was "threatening" - just all sorts of horrific things.
I am 22 years old and have been without parental contact since I was 19, having come out at 16 and left home at 17. I've been on and off hormones for a bit and just kind of forging my own path medically.
I am not alone in the things. In the community that I have built of chosen family, I am to the impression that my experiences are pretty mainstream as far as things go for trans young adults.
(At least ones who came out as nonbinary when I did in 2011, and the ones who aren't privileged enough for college. Things have changed a lot since then and not only do I not have to explain myself to my own trans community very much anymore, or to my own LGBT+ community, but cis hetero folks are catching up. Usually to make helicopter jokes but I digress.)
I want to review this with that context in hopes that it will help to communicate the gravity of how much this book's existence has meant to me. It is an essential weapon against the ignorance that threatens my life nearly every day.
Having this resource and all in it adds recognition what I go through and makes it real. It helps me, and it helps me help my friends. It fills a huge void for guidance that our community far too often is left without. It answers medical questions I didn't have to bite the embarassing TMI bullet to ask my friends on Facebook who have gone through the same. (Privacy is a privilege and this book gives better access to that.) Doctors seldom know any of this information at all.
The fact is, doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, etc don't know any of this information the vast majority of the time.
But it is a matter of life or death for us that they do.
The book itself is pretty much a textbook. It should be required reading for everyone that has an affect on our lives as trans people whether they concern themselves with it or not.
This book makes a difference. I could not afford it but recently I got it thirdhand from a friend of mine, traded for soy milk and a box of froot loops. I am so grateful to finally own it. I keep it in my living room where I live with three other trans people as roommates.
I hope one day enough med students and therapists and nurses have read this so that no trans person will have to go through the weird glares and intrusive questions and sexual harassment (literally all things that happen on regular hospital visits just when we list medications) that me and my friends have gone through again.
I am a trans, genderqueer person who has dealt with a lot of stuff. I have been homeless thrice, in and out of psychiatric hospital visits and have dealt with all sorts of abuses.
I have lived through corrective rape from an abusive relationship, attempted murder via a parent, being told by medical staff my gender is a delusion/"attention-seeking behaviour" and forced to leave hospital premises by security because my pleading for psychiatric help was "threatening" - just all sorts of horrific things.
I am 22 years old and have been without parental contact since I was 19, having come out at 16 and left home at 17. I've been on and off hormones for a bit and just kind of forging my own path medically.
I am not alone in the things. In the community that I have built of chosen family, I am to the impression that my experiences are pretty mainstream as far as things go for trans young adults.
(At least ones who came out as nonbinary when I did in 2011, and the ones who aren't privileged enough for college. Things have changed a lot since then and not only do I not have to explain myself to my own trans community very much anymore, or to my own LGBT+ community, but cis hetero folks are catching up. Usually to make helicopter jokes but I digress.)
I want to review this with that context in hopes that it will help to communicate the gravity of how much this book's existence has meant to me. It is an essential weapon against the ignorance that threatens my life nearly every day.
Having this resource and all in it adds recognition what I go through and makes it real. It helps me, and it helps me help my friends. It fills a huge void for guidance that our community far too often is left without. It answers medical questions I didn't have to bite the embarassing TMI bullet to ask my friends on Facebook who have gone through the same. (Privacy is a privilege and this book gives better access to that.) Doctors seldom know any of this information at all.
The fact is, doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, etc don't know any of this information the vast majority of the time.
But it is a matter of life or death for us that they do.
The book itself is pretty much a textbook. It should be required reading for everyone that has an affect on our lives as trans people whether they concern themselves with it or not.
This book makes a difference. I could not afford it but recently I got it thirdhand from a friend of mine, traded for soy milk and a box of froot loops. I am so grateful to finally own it. I keep it in my living room where I live with three other trans people as roommates.
I hope one day enough med students and therapists and nurses have read this so that no trans person will have to go through the weird glares and intrusive questions and sexual harassment (literally all things that happen on regular hospital visits just when we list medications) that me and my friends have gone through again.