Kish Guides: Gender & Sexuality Diversity (GSD): Health and Wellness

Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population by Teresa Heinz Housel (Editor); Vickie L. Harvey (Editor)
Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population addresses a people whose lack of health care access, including mistreatment and refusal of services, are often omitted from discussions about health care and insurance reform. Research suggests that LGBT people experience worse health outcomes than their heterosexual counterparts.

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Why a Gay Person Can't Be Made Un-Gay: the Truth About Reparative Therapies by MD, Martin Kantor
Despite an abysmal "success rate," practitioners still use reparative therapy in an attempt to turn gays and lesbians straight. This text exposes the pitfalls that should be considered before gays embark on this journey that typically leads nowhere.
Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development by Richard Isay
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.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: a Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth (Editor)
"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (TBTS) will be the go-to resource for transgender populations, covering health, cultural and social questions, history, theory, legal issues, and more. It is a place for transgender and gender-questioning people, their partners and families, students, educators, counselors, and others to look for up-to-date information on transgender life. It is intended to become the ultimate commercial resource (approx 500 pp.) on trans health and development for trans populations, serving much the same role as Our Bodies, Ourselves, which is now published for women worldwide" (Descriptive content provided by Syndetics™, a Bowker service)