Transforming Practice: A Transgender Resource for Health Care Providers

by Marcus Greatheart

In our experience our trans friends frequently have to educate their healthcare providers and therapists- not to mention the general public- about trans issues, so hopefully this book can grease the wheels for many of them so there's a peer reviewed book/study they can point to that dispels the myth that trans men and people anywhere on the gender spectrum are prone to mental illness and unhappiness. This book has first hand interviews of trans men talking about positive experiences and even describing their transition process as enjoyable.

178 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 2013

About the author

Marcus Greatheart MD, MSW, RSW is a community-based social worker, radical therapist and resident physician. In the early 1990s he co-founded Canada's first youth-for-youth AIDS service organization and went on to specialize in LGBT health and HIV education. His graduate research for a Master of Social Work at the University of British Columbia led to the publication of Transforming Practice: Life Stories of Transgender Men that Change How Health Providers Work (2013, Ethica Press).

Together with Robert Birch, a community health activist and doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria, Greatheart co-edited The Contemporary HIV Zeitgeist from the series Annals of Gay Sexuality (2015, Ethica Press).

Greatheart is currently completing his specialty training in Family Medicine in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia.