Gender Identity

Gender Identity offers guidance and information concerning the issue of gender identity, covering the forms of being transgender, as well as how to accept ones self, come out to friends and family, and deal with discrimination.

The definition of gender has been evolving with society's views on sexuality and this title offers readers an unbiased, non-political, and medical analysis of gender identity today. Topics covered include forms of being transgender, such as transexual, gender queer, and intersex, as well as how to accept one's self, come out to friends and family, and deal with discrimination. Readers learn that gender is not the binary structure of male and female, as was believed in the past, but a more complex concept.