Transgender Good News
Table of Contents
- Preface.......................................................................................................ix
- Acknowledgements.....................................................................................xi
- Chapter 1: Introduction.................................................................................1
- Seeing What You Don't Want to See Takes Discipline..................................7
- Definitions.....................................................................................................8
- We Exist......................................................................................................10
- A Scientific Preview.....................................................................................12
- Chapter 2: Our Bodies.................................................................................15
- From Least Parts to Creative Wholes...........................................................15
- Designer Bodies...........................................................................................18
- Growing Up.................................................................................................21
- Alike and Different.......................................................................................24
- Darwinism One More Time..........................................................................37
- Traits and Choices........................................................................................41
- What Our Bodies Contribute to Transgender Experience ..............................46
- Chapter 3: Feeling and Thinking About Sex and Gender.................................47
- What You Can't Learn in Clinics....................................................................48
- Nonclinical Psychological Studies...................................................................61
- Men and Women Are Alike and Different.......................................................63
- Masculinity, Femininity and Androgyny...........................................................69
- Our Freedom Generating and Influential Bodi..................................................72
- Chapter 4: Gender Identities and Gender Relationships....................................77
- What We Can Learn From Surveys.................................................................78
- The Social Construction of Transgender Reality................................................86
- Creating Expectations and Breaking Them........................................................93
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- Choosing Partners for Sexual Sharing...............................................................96
- Summary.........................................................................................................97
- Chapter 5: Images of Transgender People.......................................................101
- Stories............................................................................................................103
- Photos............................................................................................................110
- Chapter 6: Understanding Transgender Experience and Expression...................123
- Theoretical Context..........................................................................................124
- Building Blocks for Understanding Transgender Experience and Expression.......130
- A Theory of Transgender Identity Development.................................................131
- Chapter 7: Getting Help and Getting Hurt...........................................................137
- A Review of Why Clinical Studies Lack Scientific Credibility..............................137
- How Professional Opinions Are Created and What They're Worth.....................139
- A Case Study of Clinical Oppression.................................................................149
- Professions Gone Wrong...................................................................................152
- Clinical Parenting...............................................................................................153
- Changing Bodies................................................................................................154
- Transgender Friendly Counel..............................................................................161
- Chapter 8: Transgender Issues............................................................................165
- Transgender Sexual Relations.............................................................................166
- Transgender Parenting........................................................................................171
- Transgender Law...............................................................................................175
- Getting and Keeping a Job..................................................................................185
- Marriage.................................................................................... .......................185
- Transgender Activism.........................................................................................188
- Cultural Oppression............................................................................................192
- Transgender Culture?..........................................................................................194
- Chapter 9: Transgender Channels of Grace..........................................................199
- A Theological Introduction....................................................................................202
- Gaining Perspective Before Picking Up the Work..................................................206
- Seeing the Hand of the Creator in the Creation.......................................................207
- What Can We Learn from Scripture?.....................................................................218
- What Can We Learn from Christian Doctrine?.......................................................227
- Liberating Sex and Gender.....................................................................................232
- A New Wine Skin to Hold All the Life Giving Truth................................................251
- Appendix: Pastoral Advice to Individuals and Congregations...................................271
- Pastoral Advice to Individuals.................................................................................271
- Pastoral Advice to Congregations............................................................................272
- Glossary ................................................................................................................278
- References..............................................................................................................281
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