Trans People in Love

Offers insight into the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to relationships, the skills needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in various stages of transition can create loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.

"Trans People in Love" is a illuminating resource for members of the trans community and their partners and families; gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and intersex people; sexologists; sex therapists; counselors; psychologists; psychotherapists; social workers; psychiatrists; medical doctors; educators; students; and couples and family therapists. "Trans People in Love" provides a forum for the experience of being in love and in relationships with significant others for members of the trans community. This honest and respectful volume tells clinicians, scholars, and trans people themselves of the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to a romantic relationship, what skills and mindsets are needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in all stages of transition can create stable and loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.

Foreword (Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas)
Acknowledgments
1. Switcheroo (Stenton MacKenzie)
2. My Desire to Be All Woman (Armanda Scheidegger)
3. Our Trip to Vancouver (Jody Helfand)
4. To Fight, Live, and Love at the Gender Border (Isaac Lindstrom)
5. Perfect Day (Susan Stryker)
6. A Transgressor's Love (Andr s Ignacio Rivera Duarte)
7. I'm Not a Lesbian, My Wife Is: Norms and Perceptions in a Trans Marriage (Gypsey Teague)
8. Nick and Mark (Nick Laird)
9. Beyond Gender and Sexuality (Debra Hastings)
10. From Russia with Love (Orsekov Dan)
11. Queerly Beloved: How a Lesbian Love Survived Transition (Jacob Anderson-Minshall)
12. Sex and the Single Trannie (Monica F. Helms)
13. Between Shows: A True Story (Lee
Bridgett
Harrington)
14. To the Three Women I Loved in My Transgender Life (Tiny Belly)
15. Bodies May Lie but Hearts Never Do (Nickolas J. McDaniel)
16. Satan and Lady Babalon: Polyamory Again at 64 (Rusty Mae Moore)
17. The Adventures of a Transman in Love, Sex, and Spirituality (Joseph J. Nutini)
18. Eternity Fields of Yokatatumba (Vidal Rousso)
19. My Husband Had a Sex Change Shit Happens (Erica Zander)
20. Things of His (Jordy Jones)
21. Love Lost and Found (Martine Delaney)
22. From Queer to Eternity (Zayne Jones)
23. Kayla and Laura (Kayla Karstens)
24. Madam Carmen (Carmen Rupe)
25. Still Queer After All These Years: Reflections on Being in a Trans Couple (Joelle Ruby Ryan)
26. Notes for Trans People (Tracie O'Keefe)
27. Notes for Therapists (Tracie O'Keefe)
About the Editors
Contributors