With practical wisdom and advice, and personal real-life stories, Lev tells gay parents everything they need to know and everything they can expect while making their own significant and challenging mark on family life in the 21st century.

Lev, a family therapist in Albany, NY, takes a feminist family-systems perspective that approaches transgenderism as a normal and potentially healthy variation of human expression. Positing that transgendered people are not mentally ill, but rather are trying to adapt and cope with an untenable cu

Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clients
This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families 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.
Specific sections of Transgender Emergence:...