Dallas Denny

Current Concepts is an edited text with chapters by a wide variety of noted clinicians, researchers, and theorists in the field. It is, among other things, an homage to John Money & Richard Green’s 1969 edited text Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment and includes chapters by three of the original contributors: Money, Green, and Ira Pauley. Other authors include Anne Bolin, Holly Boswell, Richard Green, Bonnie and Vern Bullough, Ruth Hubbard, Aaron Devor, Richard Ekins and Dave King, Sandra Cole, George Brown, Collier Cole and Walter Meyer, Bill Henkin, and others. The text is divided into two parts. In Part I: Toward a New Synthesis, authors highlight emerging methodologies and ideas about being trans These include discussions of sex and gender, emerging transgender models, and historical treatments. In Part II: Research and Treatment Issues, the authors write about among other things, therapy, electrolysis, male-to-female and female-to-male hormonal therapy, MTF genital surgery, interpersonal relationships, and issues of sexuality. For those unfamiliar with Green & Money’s Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, it described the treatment protocols for sex reassignment at Johns Hopkins University. It included chapters on MTF and FTM genital surgery and hormonal therapy, office management electrolysis, psychological testing, legal issues, religion, and more. It was an influential book that was followed faithfully by clinicians. Current Concepts was, in essence, a revision and update that described new models of thinking about trans people. –Dallas Denny

I wrote this book to help transsexuals with the formidable challenge of changing their legal identities from one gender to the other. – Dallas Denny

Gender dysphoria is a 700+- page bibliography of the literature of transsexualism. I didn’t realize it as I was preparing the manuscript. It was only when I was listening to Phyllis Frye speak at her International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy in Texas that it came to me: I was the first transsexual to produce a book-length nonautobiographical contribution to the medical and psychological literature of transsexualism—the only out-of-the-closet transsexual, anyway. It astonished me. When I founded The American Educational Gender Information Service in 1990, I began compiling a bibliography of transsexualism, crossdressing, and intersexuality. After several years it had become voluminous. When I sent a copy to the late Dr. Vern Bullough he suggested I publish it. A week or so later I found a contract from Garland Publishers in the AEGIS mailbox. I signed and returned it and Gender Dysphoria: A Guide to Research was born. Published in 1994, Gender Dysphoria was printed on acid-free paper with acid-free covers that will make the work last centuries. It weighs in at 704 pages. Vern Bullough wrote the Foreword. Gender Dysphoria is a comprehensive bibliography. There are thousands of entries, with sections for books, book chapters and journal articles, legal cases, and material from the popular press. A 76-page Index cross-references the entries. It would be difficult if not impossible for a single person to attempt such a task today—there’s simply too much material. Books, mostly self-published autobiographies, appear weekly, and as many and sometimes more than 100 articles a day are published. Most are in the popular press. In 1992, however, compiling a comprehensive bibliography of transsexualism was a manageable task—just. Pretty much every book and article in the scientific literature through 1992 can be found in the pages of Gender Dysphoria. Richard Green once told me he kept a copy on his desk. I was flattered. By the time Gender Dysphoria appeared, I regretted the title. I had long since stopped using the term to refer to transsexual and transgendered people. – Dallas Denny

This booklet is written for those who want to know more about the expression of gender, and especially for those who have questions about their own gender. The casual reader will be left with an appreciation of the distinction between sex and gender and an understanding of the multitude of ways in which individuals can express their gender and their sexuality. Those who are troubled about their gender will be able to explore their feelings and come to a better understanding of themselves. If you are unfamiliar with the terminology, you might want to start by referring to the glossary, which can be found towards the back of this publication. We at AEGIS believe one’s gender is a matter of informed personal choice. This series of booklets is designed to provide information which will help you to make competent and rational decisions about your gender. –Publisher

"More That Just A Flag is the autobiography of Trans Flag creator, trans activist and Navy veteran, Monica F. Helms. Monica's book details the major events of her life, from childhood through to the books publication in 2019. Included are her service in the U.S. Navy as a submariner, and her personal journey to discovering her true self as a trans woman, including the subsequent battles she fought with her civilian employer, Sprint. Helms recalls her creation of the Transgender Pride Flag in 1999, and her donation of the original to the Smithsonian in 2014. Monica details her founding of the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) in 2003, where she went on to serve as president for ten years. Along with numerous other examples of her trans activism, including holding Atlanta's first TDOR event in 2000, Helms recounts lobbying state legislators in Arizona and Georgia, as well as in D.C., and being elected a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. At times, funny, at others, necessarily sad, More Than Just A Flag is the story of a leader in the fight for transgender acceptance, at a time when the trans community was just coalescing and finding its voice."--Amazon.com.

This booklet provides information on moving past guilt, shame, and insecurity surrounding gender dysphoria and moving towards embracing self-acceptance to live happier and more productive lives. – Digital Transgender Archive

This booklet provides information on the social and psychic affects of transitioning legally, physically, emotionally, sexually, and socially. – Digital Transgender Archive. Much has changed since I wrote this series of booklets in the early 1990’s. Not only have I become older and hopefully wiser, but there has been a revolution in the way gender identity issues are viewed. The term “gender dysphoria,” with its implication of mental illness, does not accurately describe the transgender process for all of us, and for most of us, we are only dysphoric for a relatively short time. Someone who has come to terms with who or what they are, whether they crossdress on occasion, or whether they have transitioned and live full time in the new gender role, with or without surgery, is hardly dysphoric. One day I will re-write this booklet, but as there is much to do and little time to do it, and since, I believe, it remains a useful tool for those looking into their issues with gender identity, please excuse me if I give other projects higher priority. – Dallas Denny, 1996.