Recommended Guidelines for the Residential Placement and Support of Transgender Individuals within Social Service, Mental Health and Correctional Settings

Transgender Care is a rather different kind of book--not just among books by, for, or about the transgendered, but among nonfiction books generally. It is both a personal statement and a collection of diverse viewpoints; it is both an advocate for a new policy of healthcare and a polemic against that same policy (as being insufficiently revolutionary); it is both a dry, almost academic, detailed description of that policy, directed largely at healthcare providers, and a collection of impassioned voices, both raw and educated, strident and well-modulated, speaking out of the depths of that healthcare clientele.

As of recently, Internet Transgen members have been discussing a local San Francisco study about transgender persons. And, people in this fine city have been gearing up for the Transgender Candlelight Vigil. In reflection, however, I noted one person make what appeared to be an assumption that transgender persons get more probation, and do less time incarcerated.