Becoming a Visible Man

By Jamison Green. 2004

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Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment. For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people - as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others - enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done. Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiences - including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery - the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one's life honestly, openly, and passionately.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Social Psychology

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Transpeople, Transprejudice and Pathologization: A Seven-Country Factor Analytic Study (2009, background): “It is evident in autobiographies (e.g. Green, 2004, writing in the US; Morris, 1974, in the UK; Rees, 1996, in the UK), biographical accounts (e.g.”
Deconstructing the complex perceptions of gender roles, gender identity, and sexual orientation among transgender individuals (2012, background): “The term ‘transgender’ reﬂects the concept of breaking gender roles and gender identity and/or transcending the boundaries of one gender to another gender (Green, 2004).”
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer as Critical Gender Kind (2019, background): “For more evidence on the connection between trans identifications and violating heteronormative gender expectations and roles, see Diamond & Butterworth (2008) and Green (2004).”
Parent' Reactions to Transgender Youth' Gender Nonconforming Expression and Identity (2005, background): “Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose self-identification or expression breaks, goes across, or transgresses established gender categories or boundaries (Green, 2004; Sears, 2005).”
The Needs of Gender-Variant Children and Their Parents: A Parent Survey (2011, background): “Finding language that supports dialogue regarding the sharing of self-awareness of gender variance has been an ongoing issue for gender-variant people (Ellis & Eriksen, 2002; J. Green, 2004; Israel & Tarver, 1997; Mallon, 1999a).”
Gender Differences in Correlates of Homophobia and Transphobia (2008, background): “Transgenders are individuals who violate norms of gender roles and gender identity and/or go across the boundaries of one gender to another gender (Green 2004).”
Transgender youth and life-threatening behaviors. (2007, background): “In relation to the lethality of the sui- Green (2004, p. 90) stated, “Most of us are not seeking perfection when measured cide attempts in which the youth were most intent on ending their lives, six were rated as against external stereotypes; rather, most of us are seeking an internal sense of comfo”
The positive aspects of a transgender self-identification (2011, background): “Assorted (auto)biographies share stories of the strengths and growth of transgender-identified individuals (e.g. Boylan, 2003; Green, 2004).”
Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people. (2015, unknown): “…TGNC people’s learning, psychologists may introduce some of the narratives written by TGNC people that reﬂect a range of outcomes and developmental processes in exploring and afﬁrming gender identity (e.g., Bornstein & Bergman, 2010; Boylan, 2013; J. Green, 2004; Krieger, 2011; Lawrence, 2014).”
Aspects of Psychological Resilience among Transgender Youth (2011, background): “Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose self-identification or gender expression transcends society’s constructed established gender categories or who do not conform to the culturally defined norms of their biological sex (Green, 2004; Sears, 2005).”