Reddit reviews Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families

Tell her to do the work herself. She is a professional therapist, that's her job! I guarantee you aren't the first or last person she'll see with gender issues.

Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Emergence-Therapeutic-Guidelines-Gender-Variant/dp/078902117X

http://www.amazon.com/Trans-Bodies-Selves-Transgender-Community/dp/0199325359

Tell them it's biological, not psychological.

1. The Gender Variant Phenomenon--A Developmental Review
   By Anne Vitale Ph.D. January 27, 2003
   
   
2. Clinical implications of the organizational and activational effects of hormones
   Milton Diamond 2009
   
   
3. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families

This link worked for me.

As I am not a trained therapist, would you be willing to provide quick insight into:

>views assessment and treatment through a nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity and acknowledges the role of oppression in the developmental process of gender identity formation.

nonpathologizing sounds good - positive

but does that stuff about the role of oppression mean that therapists and family members both can benefit from understanding how the cultural deck seems (at least at certain times and in certain ways) to be stacked against trans people?

Thank you in advance, and I believe I've seen your username before, but if not, welcome to MPIT!

Full disclosure: I have not read any of these books. They are all in my Amazon Smile wish list :) Also, some are specifically for transgender issues, but some are geared toward the client or LGBTQ community. You can read them and integrate the information to support your practice.

• Gender Quest Workbook
  
  
• Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients
  
  
• Counseling LGBTI Clients
  
  
• Nurturing Queer Youth: Family Therapy Transformed
  
  
• Handbook of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Counseling and Psychotherapy
  
  
• Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families
  
  
• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community