Pride Month 2024 Reading List
Published June 18, 2024
Inside OME
Honor and celebrate Pride Month and beyond by reading these books recommended by the osteopathic medical education community!
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)
This book utilizes collaborative autoethnography to examine transformations in health and aging among queer, trans and intersex people in society. To this end, the authors Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, J. E. Sumerau and Nik M. Lampe each utilize their lived experiences as queer, trans and/or intersex people to discuss inequalities and norms in U.S. healthcare. Further, they elaborate upon some ways U.S. healthcare systems may become more inclusive of queer, trans and intersex populations over time. In so doing, they utilize the autoethnographic cases to illustrate and describe the complexities of sex, gender and sexualities in health and aging, as well as the ways such intricacies facilitate societal inequalities in health and aging.
Trans Medicine
Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, Stef Shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today.
Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, Shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care.
Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide
With the most up-to-date scientific and clinical information, this practical guide reviews new data on terminology, demographics and epidemiology; highlights key aspects of gender identity emergence across the lifespan and provides guidance on both hormonal and surgical gender affirmation. Applying a health-equity model of care, this invaluable resource by Alex S. Keuroghlian, Jennifer Potter and Sari L. Reisner offers a foundation for clinicians when addressing the health needs of transgender and gender-diverse communities.
The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients: The Inclusive Psychotherapist
Written by leading experts in the field of LGBT health in conjunction with The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health, one of the most trusted and respected community-based research, education and care centers, this edition by Margaret Nichols continues to present the important issues facing patients and practitioners.
Spanning sexuality, gender, relationships and age groups, The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is an invaluable reference for psychotherapists in a broad range of clinical settings.
Comprehensive Care of the Transgender Patient
From Cecile A. Ferrando, MD, MPH, a renowned specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, and medical and surgical experts in this growing field comes an up-to-date, multidisciplinary resource on transgender healthcare and surgery.
The book covers all aspects of transgender healthcare, beginning with epidemiology and history and progressing to an in-depth review of the complex transition for patients, including mental health services, endocrine and hormone therapy treatment and surgical options. It incorporates all the latest guidelines for providers and patients, written by experts from a wide variety of disciplines involved in transgender patient care, and contains outstanding surgical chapters contributed by prominent surgeons who regularly perform these procedures, providing clear guidance on male-to-female and female-to-male surgical options.
The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health [2 Volumes]
Recent years have seen a flood of high-quality research related to the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and families. The GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health, edited by Jason S. Schneider, Vincent M. B. Silenzio and Laura Erickson-Schroth, is the first comprehensive resource to gather that knowledge in one place in the service of vital information needs. Both accurate and easy to understand, the two-volume handbook addresses physical, mental and emotional health, as well as policy decisions affecting the LGBT community from youth through old age.
LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity
Drawn from real-world experience and current research, the fully updated LGBTQ Cultures, 3rd Edition, paves the way for healthcare professionals to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive healthcare to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) patients. This vital guide by Michele J. Eliason, PhD and Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, fills the LGBTQ awareness gaps, including replacing myths and stereotypes with facts and measuring the effects of social stigma on health.
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Contributors to this collection by Lourdes Dolores Follins and Jonathan Mathias Lassiter intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, homonegativity, biphobia, transphobia and social class. This collection fills a gap in current scholarship by providing information about an array of health issues like cancer, juvenile incarceration and depression that affect all subpopulations of Black LGBT people, especially Black bisexual-identified women, Black bisexual-identified men and Black transgender men.
Pride: You Can't Heal If You're Hiding From Yourself
Do you wonder or worry about your gender or sexual feelings? Are you worried about what other people might think of you if they knew? Or do you know someone who is struggling with their identity, and you don't know how to help? You are not alone. Dr. Ron Holt has spoken to thousands of college-age students to help them make sense of their questions and their lives. This book gives you information that has helped many people sort out what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning (LGBTQ). PRIDE is full of stories, practical advice and recommendations, bringing together the information you need to create a happy and fulfilling life. If you are questioning your gender or sexual feelings, or want to help someone who is, this book is for you!
Also available from Dr. Ron Holt are free downloadable coloring books on topics of gender, pride and love.
AACOM thanks Katresa Gardner, MLIS, public services librarian, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine South Georgia, and Ronald Holt, DO, adjunct assistant professor, Kansas City University and student health psychiatrist, San Francisco State University, for sharing these recommendations.
Anything we missed? Share your Pride Month reading list by tagging us on X at @AACOMmunities.