ABSTRACT

This book examines issues across the lifespan of transgender and nonbinary individuals whilst synthesizing conceptual work, empirical evidence, pedagogical content, educational experiences, and the voices of transgender and nonbinary individuals. It highlights the resilience and resistance of transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities to challenge narratives relying on one-dimensional perspectives of risk and tragic lives.

While there is currently unprecedented visibility and increasing support, members of these communities still face shockingly high rates of violence, victimization, unemployment, discrimination, and family rejection. Significant need for services and support coupled with social, clinical, and medical service systems ill-equipped to provide culturally responsive care illustrates the critical need for quality education and training of educators, practitioners, and service providers in best practices of working with members of the transgender and nonbinary community.

Organized into six sections:

  • Health
  • Areas of Practice
  • Coming Out and Family
  • Relationships and Sexuality
  • Communities
  • Multiply Marginalized Identities and Populations,

this book offers a current, comprehensive, and intersectional guide for students, practitioners, and researchers across a variety of professions, including social work, psychology, public policy, and health care.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction Part 1

Introduction to social work and health care with transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities

chapter |16 pages

Introduction Part 2

Place, joy, and self in trans and nonbinary justice

part 1|77 pages

Health

part 4|45 pages

Relationships and sexuality

part 5|72 pages

Communities

chapter Chapter 18|15 pages

TNB-affirming policy

Current landscape, issues, and change practices

chapter Chapter 21|12 pages

Creating safe spaces

Digital as an enabling environment for TNB people

part 6|44 pages

Multiply marginalized identities and populations

chapter Chapter 22|14 pages

Centering trans/nonbinary people of color

Health disparities, resiliency, and opportunities for affirmative clinical practice