References for Gender/Trans/LGBT+ Training

Sexual biology and intersex conditions

• What is intersex?
• Phallometer
• What is the Agenda of the Intersex Patient Advocacy Movement?
• Daphna Joel TED Talk – Are Brains Male or Female?
• Scientific American: Visualising sex as a spectrum
• Update on the Biology of Transgender Identity
• Research note: intersexuality, feminism and the case for gender binaries
• Biological evidence for trans people 
• Endocrine Society position statement on Transgender Health

Mental Health

• Cornell study – What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
• Cambridge Study – LGB Mental Health
• Lancet study: Removing transgender identity from the classification of mental disorders 
• Gender Diagnoses and ICD-11 – Gender dysphoria moved out of “mental disorders”and renamed gender incongruence
• A list of references re: the effectiveness of transition to improve mental health
• Physical and Mental Health of Transgender Older Adults: An At-Risk and Underserved Population
• Myths About Transition Regrets
• Canadian Study – demonstrating support of trans people improves mental health reported here
• Minority Stress Model – Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence, Ilan H. Meyer

Trans young people

• Transgender Kids Show Consistent Gender Identity Across Measures
• Transgender teens become happy, healthy young adults
• A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children
• Outcomes for young trans people
• Research Paper: Young Adult Psychological Outcome After Puberty  Suppression and Gender Reassignment

Studies, surveys and statistics

• Total Jobs Trans Employee Survey Results
• Trans Mental Health Study
• Trans Suicide – Guardian article reporting on trans suicide statistics.
• Trans suicide rates
• Abuse Statistics for Trans People – another article reports further stats here

Trans/LGB history, colonialism and gender across the world

• Two Spirit People
• Two Spirits documentary
• Gay India Festival: Laxmi on transgender and hijras issues
• Trans men in India: A minority within the marginalised 
• binaohan, b (2014) decolonizing Trans/gender 101.. Biyuti publishing
• The idea that African homosexuality was a colonial import is a myth
• Trans people and the holocaust 
• 5000 year old transgender skeleton
• Kinsey scale
• Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Riviera – Stonewall Veterans

Autism and Trans/LGB People

• Autism and gender overlap
• Autism and bisexuality overlaps and obstacles
• What my female born autistic brother can teach . . .

Trans in education

• Are universtities doing enough to support trans students? 
• Gender Unicorn Graphic
• Valuing all God’s Children – CofE anti-bullying booklet
• 10% of serious LGBT bullying done by teachers
• More resourced for educators

Other articles/ papers

• Cultural Cisgenderism Consequences of the Imperceptible
• Look beyond the binary – article in BACP Therapy Today
• LGBT+ Asylum seekers
• Information about Gender Recognition Act Reform
• Advice on the Equality Act
• Stonewall’s information on GRA reform
• Gender Recognition Act
• Julia Serano

Books

• Butler, J (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge
• Lev, A (2009) Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families. P.31, New York: Routledge
• Fine, C., 2010 Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. New York: W. W. Norton & Co
• Cozolino, L., 2002. The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain. New York: W. W. Norton & Co
• Davies, D & Neal, C (1996) Pink Therapy: A Guide for Counsellors and Therapists Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients . OU Press