Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING for TRANS and GENDER DIVERSE PEOPLE
	Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Chapter 1 - The Story of Gender and Sex
		Assigning sex
		The existence of intersex people
		Gender identity
		The building blocks of gender
		Gender through history and across the world
		Conclusion
	Chapter 2 - Who Are the Trans Community?
		Why ‘all these labels’?
		Fear of ‘getting it wrong’
		Anxiety around difference
		The plurality of trans experience
		Gender incongruence
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3 - Is It the Right Thing to Transition?
		Transition goals
		Working with fear and loss in transition
		Detransition
		Transition options
		Conclusion
	Chapter 4 - Transitioning and Its Impacts
		Socially transitioning and changing records
		Gender Identity Clinic referrals
		Assigned female transitions
		Assigned male trans people
		Attitudes to body modification
		Intersex people
		Hormone myths and issues
		Transgender young people
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5 - Divergent People
		What Alan Turing can still teach us
		Autism as an identity
		Sensitivity and synaesthesia
		Conclusion
	Chapter 6 - Minority Stress and Its Causes
		Minority stress
		The pressures on the trans community
		Social hierarchy and its impact
		The web model
		Conclusion
	Chapter 7 - A Diverse Community
		Who speaks for LGBT+ people?
		Racism within the LGBT+ community
		Marginalised experiences within the trans community
		Difference across the LGBT+ community
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8 - Trans Sexuality
		How we pathologise non-standard sexuality
		Trans people and sexuality
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9 - Do’s and Don’ts for Counsellors
		Counsellor competence
		Misgendering and other language issues
		Poor theorising
		Attitudes to trans counsellors and trainees
		Tips for a trans friendly workplace
		Conclusion
	Glossary
	References
	Index
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