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Martin J Smith Going to Trinidad (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Going to Trinidad
- Title
- Going to Trinidad
- Subtitle
- A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Cr
- EAN
- 9781917895101
- ISBN
- 9781917895101
- Release Date
- 15/04/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Going to TRINIDAD : a Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Bower House
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Gender Studies, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protege Marci Bowers not only made the phrase "Going to Trinidad" a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery in the worldwide transgender community, but also turned the small outpost near the New Mexico border into what The New York Times once called "the sex-change capital of the world." The full story of that nearly forgotten chapter in gender and medical history has never been told--until now. Award-winning writer Martin J. Smith spent two years researching not only the stories of Trinidad, Biber, and Bowers, but also tracking the lives of many transgender men and women who sought their services. The result is "Going to Trinidad," which focuses on the complicated pre- and post-surgery lives of two Biber patients--Claudine Griggs and Walt Heyer--who experienced very different outcomes. Through them, Smith takes readers deep into the often-mystifying world of gender, genitalia, and sexuality, and chronicles a fascinating segment of the human species that's often misunderstood by those for whom gender remains a mostly binary male-or-female equation. The stories of Trinidad's surgeons and transgender pilgrims provide an important opportunity to better understand the millions of complex individuals whose personal struggle is complicated by today's quicksand of cultural pressures and prejudices. More than six thousand transgender men and women left Trinidad hoping that hormone therapy and surgical relief was the right prescription for their pain. For most it was, but not for all, and their experiences offer important and timely insights for those struggling to understand this sometimes confounding human condition.
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Bower House
ISBN-10
1917895100
ISBN-13
9781917895101
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3050411258
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Book Title
Going to TRINIDAD : a Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Gender Studies, United States / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages
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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.4in
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0 Oz
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Fortunately, we now have an expert account of Biber's work and life from the former Los Angeles journalist and editor Martin J. Smith. Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads functions as a biography on multiple levels: of Biber, of Trinidad, and of those who arrived to receive the surgery, primarily male to female. All of them are complicated subjects that defy easy categorization. And all of them live up to Smith's opening words: 'The best stories are about people who find themselves at a crossroads. They face a critical choice, and the choice they make in that crucible moment tells us who they are.'...Smith holds steadfastly to a nonjudgmental tone, acknowledging the courage and hardship that accompanied so many people on their journey to Trinidad, but also making the scientific record plain that surgery is not a cure-all for the unhappiness that can haunt trans people who feel they were misassigned. He walks readers through the thicket of academic literature on gender dysphoria, the sense of internal alienation.
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