Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA, is a psychiatry resident at New York University Medical Center. She is a board member of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, as well as the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists. She is a founding member of the Gender and Family Network of New York City, a group for service providers interested in the health of gender non-conforming children and adolescents.

delfin bautista, MSW, mdiv, Director of the LGBT Center at Ohio University

Genny Beemyn, Ph.D., director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sarah Belawski

Jennifer Finney Boylan, PhD, Professor of English at Colby College, member of board of directors of GLAAD and the board of trustees of the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

Kylar Broadus, JD, head of People of Color Coalition, professor

Tamar Carmel, MD, Family Medicine and Psychiatry resident at University of Pittsburgh

Peter Cava, PhD candidate, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality at Florida Atlantic University; board member of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council; conference planning coordinator for Transecting Society Conference

Jules Chyten-Brennan, PhD student, osteopathic medical, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Dallas Denny is a writer and activist who divides her time between New York and Georgia. You can view her accomplishments at www.dallasdenny.org and dallasdenny.com/writing.

Maddie Deutsch, MD, works with LA gay and lesbian center and UCSF transgender excellence program

Lore M. Dickey, PhD is a trans man; an Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA; and an active member of the American Psychological Association.

Cecilia Gentili, Group Leader, Queens Transgender Latina Group

Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, (aka Michael A. Gilbert), PhD is a Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada, Director of Fantasia Fair, and the author of many articles on Gender Theory and Argumentation Theory as well as several books on the latter subject.

Zil Goldstein, NP, primary care at Beth Israel

Nick Gorton is a physician who provides health care to transgender patients at Lyon-Martin Health Services, while working closely with the Transgender Law Center, both in in San Francisco.

Jamison Green, very well-known trans activist, author of Becoming a Visible Man

Hilary Maia Grubb, MD, is a resident in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and primary author of several new LGBT health curricula for the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Columbia University School of Nursing, and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program.

Lance Hicks is a mixed-race, transgender, queer Detroiter who does queer youth organizing, sex worker street outreach/support, and crisis intervention.

Tobi Hill-Meyer is a multiracial trans activist and filmmaker who founded Handbasket Productions where she created Doing it Ourselves, the first and currently only porn film made by and for trans women and their community.

Ruben Hopwood, PhD, Psychologist at Fenway LGBT health center and health of their trans counseling program

Joe Ippolito, PsyD., LICSW, is a Doctoral of Psychology, a behavioral health clinician with Allina Health Systems, a Psychology Professor at Metropolitan State University, the Founder & Chair of Gender Reel, the Administrative Director of 2 Queers and A Camera, and the Producer & Director of "Growing Old Gracefully: The Transgender Experience."

Colt Keo-Meier, PhD is a clinical psychologist in Houston, Texas, co-chair of the Committee for Transgender People and Gender Diversity of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, co-chair of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Student Initiative, and co-founder of Gender Infinity, an annual Houston based summer conference created for gender diverse and transgender children, youth, and their families.

Aidan Key runs trans conference called "Gender Odyssey"

Kate Kourbatova, BA, Anthropology, University of Washington, gender-fluid human from post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Kestryl Cael Lowrey, MA, is a Brooklyn-based scholar and performance artist, and is the creator of performances such as XY(T), 348, and RADCLYFFE: The Completely Honest and Mostly True Story of Victorian England's Second Most Notorious Invert.

Sassafras Lowrey is the winner of the 2013 Lambda Literary Foundation Berzon Emerging Author Award; more info about Sassafras is available at www.SassafrasLowrey.com

Zack Marshall

Shannon Minter, JD, head of National Center for Lesbian Rights

Quince Mountain - editor of Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine on religion.

Lazlo Ilya Pearlman is a performing artist and author with thirty years of experience making Queer and Trans theatre in the USA, the UK, and continental Europe, and who is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of London Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Kel Polly & Ryan Polly

Naim Rasul, PhD candidate, health educator at Planned Parenthood, NYC

Elana Redfield, JD, attorney with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and a board member of the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, both based in New York City.

Heath Mackenzie Reynolds is a Brooklyn-based social services provider and organizer with over a decade of experience providing supportive services and programming in health centers, community organizations, libraries, and congregations.

Ms. Jamie T. Roberts, JD, practices law as a criminal defense attorney in middle Georgia and is Vice-Chair of Georgia Equality, Georgia's statewide TLBG education and advocacy organization, as well as Secretary of her County Committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

Dean Scarborough hails from the Bay Area of California, where he is a feminist sex educator and a somatic therapist-in-training.

Holiday Simmons, MSW, National Community Educator at Lambda Legal, a member of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition, the Trans People of Color Coalition, and a lover of nature, soccer, and social justice

Anneliese A. Singh, Ph.D., LPC is an Associate Professor at The University of Georgia, International Section Associate Editor for the Journal of Counseling & Development, and founding member of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition; her research and advocacy focuses on the resilience of trans people of color

Evan Smith, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, Chair of Psychology, and Director of the Women and Gender Studies program at Elizabethtown College.

Carey Jean Sojka, MA, is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, and an instructor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Southern Oregon University.

Jessica Lina Stirba, JD/MS, is an activist and scholar living in Brooklyn with her loving partner and two cats.

Mixter Jae DK Szeszycki-Truesdell, MA, MPH is an HIV Testing Counselor for the AIDS Health Foundation and a contributing member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on LGBT Health

Reid Vanderburgh, MA, Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy University Graduate School for Holistic Studies; retired marriage and family therapist, Portland, Oregon

Syrus Marcus Ware, visual artist, activist, radio programmer

Fresh! White, CPCC is a Life, Career and Spiritual Coach; Principle of Affirmative Acts Coaching, Writer, Speaker, Core Coach with Prism Coaching

Tarynn Witten, PhD, University of Virginia

Ziegler, Kortney Ryan, PhD, writer, artist, and social entrepreneur dedicated to ending all forms of transgender discrimination.

"[A] groundbreaking title" --Publisher's Weekly

"As transgender people strive to gain more acceptance and legal protections, they will soon have a hefty new resource to assist them - a 672-page book, written by scores of transgender contributors, that encompasses social history, gender politics and wide-ranging advice on health, law, relationships and many other matters. Encyclopedic in scope, conversational in tone, and candid about complex sexual issues, the Oxford University Press book being released in mid-May is titled Trans Bodies, Trans Selves - a deliberate echo of a pioneering feminist health-resource book, Our Bodies, Ourselves that appeared more than 40 years ago" --Associated Press

"I have been waiting for some time to see a book come out that is written for the purposes of providing timely information to transgender individuals to support them through their identity process. The comprehensiveness of this book is a major strength that can be applied to transgender individuals, their loved ones, and those who are in fields that impact transgender individuals. I have yet to have seen a book that incorporates information for individuals who identify on the gender spectrum-most books focus on one specific identity, whereas Trans Bodies, Trans Selves allows for the breadth of applying to many different individuals. This book appears to carry on the tradition of affirming many different transgender identities and the identification process." -Stephanie L. Budge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology, University of Louisville

"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is the answer to the wishes of many trans individuals and their therapists and counselors for a comprehensive resource of critical information that is both accurate and reliable, on the one hand, and written in a respectful way that is addressed to trans and questioning readers rather than at them or about them. I wholeheartedly recommend this book." -Michael L. Hendricks, Ph.D., ABPP, Clinical Psychologist, Washington Psychological Center

"...a community of people who are the best experts on themselves has come together to create a resource of information, mutual support, and political advocacy that will strengthen many. Thanks to Trans Bodies, Trans Selves and all the transgender folks who have been writing and teaching over the past many years, we, a group of cisgender women, now know that we can no longer say 'a woman's body' and mean only one thing." -From the Afterword by Wendy Sanford, author of Our Bodies, Our Selves

"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves comes at a moment in our history when transgender people are in the spotlight, but we are not yet the authority on our own lives. This critical resource will provide a beacon of hope for the transgender person in crisis who is facing a barrage of negative messages, life-threatening discrimination, and a lack of support and validation. We now have a volume that speaks to our lived experiences and provides the message that our lives matter, we are powerful in ourselves and our bodies, and we demand political, social, and legal equality." -M. Dru Levasseur, JD, Director of Lambda Legal's Transgender Rights Project and Co-Founder of the Jim Collins Foundation, providing financial assistance to transgender people for gender-confirming surgeries

"One of the most grassroots, comprehensive transgender and gender noncomforming (TGNC) community-based literary projects I have ever seen. Lots of great people with diverse perspectives brought together to provide a truly holistic look at what is to be a TGNC person in all the various ways one may define that for themselves. A great resource that respects the immense intersectionality of trans and gender nonconforming people's lives. Finally a literary project that sincerely deserves the use of the term 'Groundbreaking'." -Imani Henry, Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC), focusing on national organizing of LGBT people and communities of color

"For years I wondered how to create a one-stop-shop book for the trans community with all the basic info trans people would need. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves has done it!" -Riki Wilchins, founder of GenderPAC and The Transexual Menace, and author of Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer

"Trans Bodies Trans Selves is a remarkably timely and much needed book that brings together collaborators across the spectrum of transgender health, culture, and history. At no other time has the transgender community been so poised to break out of its collective closet than now. It is vitally important to our communities of transgender people, advocates, and health care providers to have this volume of expertise at our fingertips. Dr. Erickson-Schroth has done us a great service by bringing together thoughtful thinkers and writers in the social and biological sciences to share complex knowledge that will empower each reader of this volume in new ways. Whether you are transgender, genderqueer, cis, scholar, health-care provider, social service provider, policy-maker, loved one, or other interested ally, you will find mind-opening and practical information and perspectives in this groundbreaking collection." -Jack Pula, MD, co-chair of the APA NY District Branch Committee on LGBT issues

"There has never been a book just like Trans Bodies, Trans Selves. More than a medical textbook, much more than any individual's autobiography, this anthology of transgender health and history is personalized with interviews covering every point on the spectrum of transgender experience. Transgender and gender nonconforming persons will read this book and see stories directly relevant to their own lives. Others who read with a desire to learn about the experience of transgender life - for that is the correct term, 'life' not 'lifestyle' - will not be disappointed. People who said 'I have never met a transgender person' may feel they have met many of us in the pages of this book. [R]ecommended for everyone who wants to understand this wonderful, brave, diverse group called 'transgender.'" -Rebecca Allison, MD, past President of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality

"TBTS is brimming with straightforward information about living a life as a gender-nonconforming person in the United States...illuminating even for people who are already well-informed... " --The New Republic

"[T]his book clearly comes at the perfect time...Bridging the gap between being understandable to the newest of readers and being helpful to those more versed in transgender issues, the vastness of topics covered includes everything from sex work to sexual safety, from romantic relationships to personal feelings about one's changing body. The mix of personal stories and professional guidance from doctors and therapists allows the reader to have a well-rounded learning experience about each of the topics." --socialworker.com

"Like its inspiration, OBOS, TBTS is not an academic treatise, nor is it meant to be, though much of the writing is quite academic. It is written for a broad audience inclusive of trans people and those who live, love, and work with them. There is thread of activism and a desire to be seen that runs through the book. Throughout the pages of information, stories and narratives are placed about the lives people are living, the struggles they face, and the joy they feel. Much of this is accomplished by the way the editor has chosen to format the book. There are many contributors who are featured in boxed narratives. This book can be used as a helpful resource to both the lay and the professional audience, as well as the transgender and cisgender person." --Shara Sand, PsycCRITIQUES

"TBTS is an invaluable resource. A surprising wealth of material on trans people already exists, written by both trans and cisgender people, and in a broad range of genres and formats, including memoirs, histories, medical journals, academic collections, and even graphic novels. This volume does an excellent job of consolidating much of that material into a 'one-stop' resource, while also providing extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter for further exploration. TBTS is an ideal book for introductory reading, both for personal and classroom use." --Feminist Collections

"This collaboratively written resource guide discusses virtually every aspect of transgender life, ranging from intersectionality and legal issues to health and art. Each chapter, written by transgender or genderqueer authors, incorporates anonymous quotations from respondents to surveys conducted by the editorial staff that demonstrate the diversity in transgender people's experiences and perspectives. A substantial work for public and academic libraries." --Library Journal