Gay Rights Trans Rights by Richard Green
Join me in my 50-year Gay Rights and Trans Rights battle. From insisting that homosexuality was not a mental illness in 1972 and referring transsexuals for sex-change in 1966. Same-sex marriage advocated in 1974, gays endorsed as parents in 1974, gays in the military in 1987, and gay boy scouts in 1987. This was sex and gender revolution.
If there is anybody on earth qualified to discuss the peculiar and to my mind intractable mysteries of trans-sexualism, it is Richard Green, who has for more than a half-century, in America as in Europe, grappled with the subject learnedly, open-mindedly, and always humanely- (JAN MORRIS, CBE. Author and historian. Reported the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 for The TIMES, writing as James Morris.) For too long LGBT people were considered deviant from somebody else's norm. Now, psychiatrist and lawyer Richard Green recalls his role in the fascinating fight against the mind-doctors' demeaning, discriminating, soul-destroying deployment of psychology. - (JONATHAN NED KATZ. Author, historian and founder of OutHistory.org) In the early 1970s, a young psychiatrist, Richard Green, challenged his profession to delist homosexuality as a mental disorder. His advocacy of same-sex marriage 40 years ago and his simultaneous support of divorcing lesbian and gay parents fighting for child custody, is a must read for the younger generation of LGBT+ people. In today's egalitarian climate, when the gains of sexual and gender minorities are often taken for granted, it is important to know and salute the people and movements that challenged heterosexist supremacism. - (PETER TATCHELL. LGBT and human rights campaigner.) Richard Green was one of the first modern doctors to study the subject of transgender. I met him in the 1960s and knew soon that his insight and understanding would become important to generations in this mysterious field. This book deserves to be required reading. It is more than a memoir. - (DR. RENEE RICHARDS. Eye surgeon, tennis player, transgender pioneer. Portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave in Second Serve as Dr. Richard Raskind and Dr. Renee Richards.) Richard Green has drawn on his unique experience at the epicenter of the struggles for dignity and rights of homosexuals and transsexuals to write a fascinating book. The story is brought to life through the portraits of the often eccentric characters who over 50 years shaped the psychological, surgical, legal and political aspects of our changing attitudes and the ongoing evolution and understanding of normal. - ( CHRISTIE HEFNER. Former Chairman, CEO Playboy Enterprises and Board Member, Masters and Johnson Institute.)
A graduate of The Johns Hopkins Medical School and The Yale Law School, Richard Green has been professor of psychiatry in the US (UCLA, Stony Brook) and England (Imperial) and has taught in law schools in the US (UCLA) and England (Cambridge University). As a psychiatric witness he testified for gay men, lesbian women, and transsexuals in American and English courts. As an attorney, he represented a gay rights client in a California court. Here, he reflects on his 50 years battling for gay rights and trans rights. From the time when homosexuality was a crime and a mental illness to same-sex marriage. From when transsexuals were unable to obtain life-saving medical and surgical treatment to confirm their true identity to public acceptance and understanding. These were battles in the sex and gender revolution.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781527225886 |
| ISBN 10 | 1527225887 |
| Title | Gay Rights Trans Rights |
| Author | Richard Green |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Agenda Book |
| Year published | 2018-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
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