Gender Dysphoria

by 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 print