LGBT

/issues in therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender client
pink therapy3
edited by charles neal and dominic davies
open university press
2000

Chapter 12: Transgender issues in therapy
transvestites- 1st in Europe? dressing in drag; theatrical, role-play; entertainment
transsexual- in "the wrong body"; changing perspective from people who broke the law through their behavior to interest by psychiatry (Lipsitz-Bem); strict definition of being either man or woman
intersexuals= have a combination of male and female genitals and have been operated on, shortly after birth, towards a body regarded as either male or female
transgender- opting for partial or no treatment
queer- as a more inclusive grouping

history:
Radclyffe Hall, lesbian woman place. but if gender reassignment allowed in 1920s, perhaps would have been female to male transsexual
femme-butch patterns in feminist circles of 1950s; avoid asking who is the "man" and "woman" of gay couples
Stonewall riots of 1969, of which gays and transvestites took part. in their Equality 2000 manifesto, transgenders were not mentioned
Chopin and George Sand - gay or lesbian relationship?
Boy George
Julian Clary
K.D. Lang
Eddie Izzard
Quentin Crisp
Diana Torr
Peggy Shaw

goals of therapy:
help clients to learn to deal with and enjoy living with ambiguity
approach each as individual
self-presentation
fear (rejection by loved ones, losing them, social disapproval),
guilt (no other options, and go ahead with it despite consequences),
shame (the result of transformation, intrusion into the world of another sex)
feel an obligation to be a success, to make the transformation worth it
transgender people feel more comfortable when they stop focusing on passing
help the integrate their transgender as much as possible, and to find their identity at the same time
de-mystification, de-pathologizing, de-medicalization, de-colonizing

look up:
number of suicides in lesbian/gays/bisexual/transgenders?