ABSTRACT
In the twenty-first century, everyone will likely meet, know, or have as a family member someone with unconventional sex or gender behavior or identity. And this means every therapist may have clients who diverge from mainstream expectations of sex or gender. This book discusses how the LGBTQ+ community has evolved over the last 50 years, why it changed in a particular direction, and where it’s headed. It reviews the concepts like gender and sexual orientation fluidity and discusses how many people are sex and/or gender diverse without identifying as such. Most importantly, each minority group are explained with information about the most common clinical issues one will encounter and practical therapeutic strategies are provided for helping. Identity is a different level of experience from feelings and behavior. The book discusses the process that individuals follow that transforms feelings into identities. But any culture that stigmatizes variant gender and sexuality incentivizes its members to hide their diversity.
