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title: "For Transgender People, a Massive New Resource"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# For Transgender People, a Massive New Resource

AP • May 1, 2014

> 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.  
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> The new book's editor, New York University psychiatrist Laura Erickson-Schroth, writes in the preface about reading her mother's copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" as a 12-year-old.  
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> "At a time when over 90 percent of physicians were men ... it was an extremely daring and exciting thing to publish a book in which women taught other women about their bodies, their sexuality, and their rights," she wrote.

  
**Read the full story:** [For Transgender People, a Massive New Resource](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/1/for-transgender-people-a-massive-new-resource/ "For Transgender People, a Massive New Resource") by David Crary[Read the full article ](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/1/for-transgender-people-a-massive-new-resource/)

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