Web Sites, Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Web Sites

• Lev, A., Alie, L., Ansara, Y., Deutsch, M., Dickey, L., Ehrbar, R., Ehrensaft, D., Green, J., Meier, S., Richmond, K., Susset, F., Winters, K. (2010A). “Statement on Gender Incongruence in Children in the DSM-5,” Professionals Concerned With Gender Diagnoses in the DSM

Articles

• Gay Parents and Gender-Bending Children, The Advocate July 11, 2006

• Scrutinizing would-be parents originally appeared in Washington Blade

• Invisible Genders in In the Family Magazine, November, 1998

• Couples in Transition: When one is trans and other is not (PDF) In the Family, 8, #4, pp. 18-23. 2003

• Transgender Emergence: A Family Affair, (PDF) published in the Division 44 Newsletter: Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Issues: A Division of the American Psychological Association, Summer, pp. 11-12, 2005.in Division 44, the APA LGBT Newsletter

• Lev, Arlene Istar, Transgender Emergence: Understanding Diverse Gender Identities and Expressions, NASW Focus, Continuing Education curricula, pp. 11-18, 21, 24, February, 2006

• No Place Like Home (PDF) in Jess Wells (Ed.) HomeFronts: Controversies in the Nontraditional Parenting Community, LA: Alyson Publications, 137-156, 2000

• Tenuous Alliance in A.E. Anzaldua and A. Keating (Eds.) This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions of Transformation, NY: Routlege, 473-482, 2002

• Lev, Arlene Istar Lesbian and Gay Parenting in Alternative Family Magazine, Van Nuys, CA, November, 1998

• Transgender Lesbians, (PDF) In The Family Magazine, 1998

GLBTQ Encyclopedia

The following articles are available on the LGBT encyclopedia website:

• Family Therapy

• Domestic Violence in the GLBT Community

• Developmental Psychology

• Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy

• Elsa Gidlow

Essays

• Being a Good Gender Therapist (PDF)

• Guidelines in Seeking a Gender Therapist (PDF)

• Adoption in the LGBT Community (PDF)

• The More Things Change

• Transgender Emergence: A Family Affair, (PDF) published in Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues in Counseling, vol XXV, #3, Fall, 2005 (Scroll down to page 9 for article)

• Transgendered Lesbian (PDF) Femme Magazine, November 2000

• Sexual Assault in the Transgender Community Forge Newsletter, November, 1999

• How Does She Do it All? (PDF)

Interviews

• Faculty Expert Speaks Interview with Arlene Istar Lev

• Five Questions with Arlene Istar Lev Interview En/Gender with Helen Boyd

• Tips for Coming Out to Your Kids by Yana Tallon Hicks online 2009

Media Quotes

• Therapists help transgender patients with psychological issues by Paul Grondahl in the Times Untion, December 9, 2011

• New Challenge for Parents: Children's Gender Roles by Jan Hoffman in the New York Times, June 10, 2011

• Controversy Continues over APA and Gender Variance by Renee Baker in the Dallas Voice, March 11, 2010

• Creating the DSM by Todd Melby in Contemporary Sexuality, Newsletter of the American Association  of Sexuality Educations and Counselors March, 2009

• DSM Controversy Could Overshadow Opportunities & DSM Section 302.85 by Zak Szymanski in The Bay Area Reporter May 29, 2008

• When She Graduates as He by Adrian Brune  Boston Globe April 8, 2007