Blog & T-Notes

#1.Post-op + 5 About five years after GRS. new issues arise

  By By Anne Vitale Ph.D. -- Mar 17, 2022

Notes on Gender Role Transition
Anne Vitale PhD, Editor
T NOTE #16
Post-Op + 5

By Anne Vitale Ph.D.

April 3, 2012

Actually the title should read "Post-Op + 5 and Counting". Over the almost 30 years of following the post-op lives of my male-to-female clients, I have noticed a pattern. It goes something like this. Somewhere about the fifth year after genital reassignment surgery, I get a call or an email message asking for a "check in appointment." I am usually assured --even before I get off the phone -- that they are still happy with having transitioned but there is something happening to them, gender wise, that they can't quite understand and would like to talk to me about it.

Although I am generalizing somewhat here, this is what comes up most often: "After all this time everyon...
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#2.Using Skype as viable therapeutic media

  By Anne Vitale Ph.D. -- Mar 17, 2022

Notes on Gender Role Transition
Anne Vitale PhD, Editor
T NOTE #17
Using Skype as viable therapeutic media: An Interim Report

Anne Vitale Ph.D.
September 2, 2013

Although I generally use my T Notes to discuss the clinical aspects of gender issues, I thought this would be a good time to write about the fast moving therapeutic impact that technology has had on the gender community. We are all familiar with the utility of listserves, blogs, online forums, informative web sites such as this one, texting and email but little has been written about the advantages of working one-on-one with a gender specialist via online video conferencing.

History--Shortly after my book was published in December 2010, I started to get requests from through-out the United States and Canada, across the European Union and even one Swiss ...
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#3.Post-Op+ 5

  By By Anne Vitale Ph.D. -- Mar 20, 2022

Notes on Gender Role Transition

T NOTE #16
Post-Op + 5

By Anne Vitale Ph.D.

April 3, 2012
Peer Reviewed

Actually the title should read "Post-Op + 5 and Counting". Over the almost 30 years of following the post-op lives of my male-to-female clients, I have noticed a pattern. It goes something like this. Somewhere about the fifth year after genital reassignment surgery, I get a call or an email message asking for a "check in appointment." I am usually assured --even before I get off the phone -- that they are still happy with having transitioned but there is something happening to them, gender wise, that they can't quite understand and would like to talk to me about it.

Although I am generalizing somewhat here, this is what come...
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#4.Recommended Reading List

  By Anne Vitale Ph.D. Editor -- Mar 20, 2022

Notes on Gender Role Transition
Anne Vitale Ph.D. Editor

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Recommended Reading List /Alphabetical Listing
Update 2/15/2004

Thanks to Ms. Ally Adamo for the fine work she did to compile this list for us.

Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality: The gender identities of over 200 men and women who have petitioned for surgical sex reassignment of their sexual identity. Tully, B. London. Whi...
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#5.ReadingListByDate

  By Anne Vitale Ph.D. Editor -- Mar 20, 2022

Notes on Gender Role Transition
Anne Vitale Ph.D. Editor

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Recommended Reading List by Date Published
Updated 2/15/2004

Thanks to Ms. Ally Adamo for the fine work she did to compile this list for us.

2004 Printings

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Boylan, J. F. Broadway; (August 10, 2004)
Boylan, English professor and author of the critically acclaimed novels The Constel...
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