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HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND SEXUALITY

Being Transgender
FORTHCOMING
What You Should Know
Kids, Sports, THOMAS E. BEVAN, PHD

and Concussion FOREWORD BY DALLAS DENNY

A Guide for Coaches and Parents With transgender people visibly
achieving fame in entertainment,
Second Edition | WILLIAM PAUL MEEHAN III, MD
the literary world, and other
A comprehensive arenas, increasing numbers of
summary of sport- transgender people are choosing
related concussion for to publicly announce that they
parents, coaches, and are transgender. All of this has
athletes that considers brought transgender people and
the physics and biology the associated issues of being
behind the injury, transgender into mainstream
identifies what can be discourse. The demand for fact-
November 2016
done to reduce the 242pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 based, scientific information on
risk of its occurrence, Print: 978-1-4408-4524-6 being transgender has never been
and describes how to $48.00, £37.00, €44.00 higher. Written by a transgender
properly respond to a eBook: 978-1-4408-4525-3 person who is also a physiological
suspected concussion. psychologist, this book is the
first for general readers that explains what is known about
January 2018 FEATURES
225pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 • Provides a detailed but transgender causation, what life as a transgendered individual is
Print: 978-1-4408-5802-4 easy-to-understand, like, and the science involved in living a transgender life.
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 jargon-free
eBook: 978-1-4408-5803-1 FEATURES
explanation of types of • Offers information derived from the author’s review of more
trauma and the forces than 3,000 source articles and books across 22 scientific
that result in a concussion as well as what happens to disciplines across more than 11 years—a repository of
brain cells when the brain suffers a concussion information that is likely the most comprehensive on
• Presents the facts about sport-related concussion and transgender science
the potential for cumulative effects of sport-related • Represents the first book written for general audiences from
concussions, including a discussion about chronic the perspective of a scientist, not a clinician or advocate
traumatic encephalopathy
• Identifies the forms of rejection of transgender people
sanctioned by culture and provides suggestions for dealing
with them
WILLIAM PAUL MEEHAN • Discusses the future of transgender people as well as that of
III, MD, is director of the the binary gender system in Western culture
Micheli Center for Sports
Injury Prevention, director
of Research for the Brain THOMAS E. BEVAN, PhD, is president and owner of a company
Injury Center at Boston that conducts research on biopsychology applications, including
Children’s Hospital, and capturing the science and experience of being transgender.
codirector of The Football Bevan has published two books on transgender science,
Players Health Study at including Praeger’s The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and
Harvard. Transgenderism.

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