Transgender Emergence (Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender - Variant People and Their Families)
Arlen Istar Lev. The Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2004

Key Elements: This text is an important one for any professionals who work with gender variant people. There are three parts, nine chapters, three appendix, a glossary, references, and an index that explore from a therapeutic perspective of the concerns and issues that are facing gender variant people and their families

Part One: Theoretical Understandings of Transgenderism
The three chapters cover mental health treatment of transsexual, the history of trangenderism and
sexual and personal identity
Chapter One- The Transsexual Phenomenon Meets the Transsexual Menace (includes compassionate and controversial treatment of transsexuals, the mental health professional as gatekeeper, and clinical guidelines-therapeutic standards of care)
Chapter Two-The Legacy: Gender Variance in History (includes the historical legacy, and medical science and gender variance)
Chapter Three-Deconstructing Sex and Gender: Thinking Outside the Box (includes the four components of identity, and deconstructing the assumptions of sexual identity

Part Two: The causes of trangenderism, the causes of trangenderism, along with the importance and the power of a diagnosis
Chapter Four-Etiologies: Causes and Categories (includes etiological theories and categorical classifications)
Chapter Five-Diagnosis and Transgenderism: The Creation of Pathology

Part Three: Treatment issues for gender variant people and their families
Chapter Six-Learning to Listen to Gender Narratives (includes mental health issues and transgenderism, clients seeking therapy, transgender narratives, and the therapist as midwife)
Chapter Seven-Transgender Emergence: A Developmental Process (includes coming out, and the transgender emergence)
Chapter Eight-Family Emergence (includes partners, spouses, significant others, development stages for family members, families coping with transgenderism, and transparents)
Chapter Nine-Transgendered Children and Youth (includes treatment, prevention and parental rights, families with gender-variant children, gender variance and progressive treatments, the transgender emergence step by step)
Chapter Ten-Treatment of Intersexed People: Time for a New Paradigm (includes assigning sex and the modern medical protocols, creating psychosocial emergency, standards of humane treatment for intersexed people)

Transgender Subjectivities: a clinician's guide
Eds: Ubaldo Leli and Jack Drescher

Transgender Care - Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information and Personal Accountants
Gianna E. Israel and Donald E. Traver II ,M.D. Temple University Press, 1997

Key Elements: Using the contributing work of a number of authors this text provides the guidelines that professional should to be aware of when working with transgender individual, what family and friends need to know when supporting them, and what an individual needs to consider when contemplating transitioning.

Part One - Recommended Guidelines
Various topics are explored along with the recommended guidelines that are related to the topic covered in that chapter
Chapter One - The Vocabulary and The Issues, Transgender Populations
An introduction that defines the terms and vocabulary related to the topic of transitioning
Chapter Two - Mental Health
Explains the different types of mental health services, counseling and psychotherapy. The diagnosis used in the mental health field, crisis intervention, key mental health issues, and sexual orientation
Chapter Three - Transgender Hormone Administration
Contains the principles of hormone administration and its background, with specific information for male to female, female to male transsexuals
Chapter Four - Transgender Aesthetic Surgery
Cosmetic surgery and the list of the principles of transgender aesthetic surgery, the types of procedures, and the recommended guidelines
Chapter Five - Genital Reassignment Surgery and Gonad Removal
Castration and what it involves- the types of procedures, related topics like pain, discomfort, and costs, etc plus the recommended guidelines for genital reassignment surgery
Chapter Six - HIV and AIDS
Has some basic information related to HIV/AIDS although since the books publication there have been advances in research and treatment of HIV,AIDS. There are also intervals with transgender individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS. There are recommended guidelines in this chapter as well
Chapter Seven - Cultural Diversity
Looks at the ethnic, racial elements of the transgender experience
Chapter Eight - Transgender Youth
Transgender adolescence, the family's responses, and society's response to it, along with some recommended guidelines for working with transgendered adolescence
Chapter Nine - Support Tools
Ways of analyzing the issues associated with the transgendered identity, how to start up a support group, examples of correspondence for professional use and the gender identity profile originally developed by Gianna E. Israel
Chapter Ten - Support Sessions Answers to basic questions about gender identity issues

Part Two - Essays
All of the essays are by different authors discussing the issues that are mentioned in their respective titles
Chapter Eleven - Ethical Implications for Psychotherapy with Individuals Seeking Gender Reassignment
Chapter Twelve - Understanding Your Rights under The San Francisco Ordinance 190
Chapter Thirteen - From the Perspective of a Young Transsexual
Chapter Fourteen - You Are Not Alone: A Personal Quest for a Support System
Chapter Fifteen - A Midlife Transition
Chapter Sixteen - Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health
Chapter Seventeen - Facial Surgery for the Transsexual
Chapter Eighteen - What Is to Be Done? A Commentary on the Recommended Guidelines
Chapter Nineteen - Genital Reassignment Surgery: A Source of Happiness for My Patients
Chapter Twenty - Over and Out in Academe: Transgender Studies Come of Age
Chapter Twenty One - Transsexuality, Science, and Prophecy
Chapter Twenty Two - Hormones
Chapter Twenty Three - The Therapist versus the Client. How the Conflict Started and Some Thoughts on How to Resolve It
There is also an appendix and a section that contains details about the contributing authors.

Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A guide for health care providers
By Nick Gorton, Jamie Buth and Dean Spade

[this is available for free download by clicking on the cover]