Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents - by Jack Drescher & William Byne (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book explores differing clinical approaches to treating transgender minors. Commentators from varied disciplines, such as biology, law and ethics discuss questions that arise from the study of transgender minors.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality.

Book Synopsis

This book explores differing clinical approaches to treating transgender minors. Commentators from varied disciplines, such as biology, law and ethics discuss questions that arise from the study of transgender minors.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality.

About the Author

Jack Drescher, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor at New York Medical College, USA. He is President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a member of DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, and the WHO Working Group on (ICD) Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health. Previous publications include Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (1998). He is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.

William Byne, MD, PhD is Associate Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA. He is Director of the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Morphometrics, and Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder.