Being Transgender: What You Should Know

by Thomas E. Bevan

Written for general audiences, this unprecedented book comprehensively answers many questions about being transgender with current experiential and scientific information, including the evidence for a biological transgender predisposition.

• Offers information derived from the author's review of more than 3,000 source articles and books across 22 scientific disciplines across more than 11 years—a repository of information that is likely the most comprehensive on transgender science

• Represents the first book written for general audiences from the perspective of a scientist, not a clinician or advocate

• Identifies the forms of rejection of transgender people sanctioned by culture and provides suggestions for dealing with them

• Discusses the future of transgender people as well as that of the binary gender system in Western culture

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Transgender

265 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 14, 2016

Reviews

[Kieran Holmes · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book sounded so promising but ended up being a huge disappointment. Scientific studies and findings were mentioned but not specified or elaborated on. It is extremely biased towards transwomen and basically invalidates/ignores the problems of being a transman on multiple occasions. There are a multitude of examples of transwomen and their experiences and only one brief citation from a transman. The section giving information about the transitioning process for transwomen is significantly longer and more detailed than the similar section for transmen. There are numerous grammatical errors throughout the book, increasingly towards the middle and end. And, in my personal opinion, I find it suspicious that the author, a transwoman, published this book, a book about being transgender, under their birth name rather than their trans name, but maybe that’s just me.

[Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative, scientifically researched and documented. Comprehensive and inclusive. I have read a lot of memoirs, but this was better at meeting the overall needs of a general audience.

[Jonny Kelvey-Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another illuminating installment in the transgender world, a how to for anybody considering transitioning, and a useful manual for those around them.

[Dawsonaurora]

It was an interesting read. Though I think about transgender differently. I think dysphoria is a larger part of transgender experience rather than purely transsexual experience. The vocabulary may be different because of geographic location. Based on the definition in the book, I would expect that there are very few transmen and even fewer transwomen, which is not the experience I have based on the samples of the people I know.