Gay Rights Trans Rights: A Psychiatrist/lawyer's 50-Year Battle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781717594310)

A graduate of The Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Yale Law School, I have been professor of psychiatry in the US and England and have taught in law school in the US and at Cambridge University in England. As a psychiatric witness, I testified for gay men, lesbian women, and transsexuals in American and English courts. As an attorney, I represented a gay rights client in a US court of law. Now, at 82 years, I reflect on my part in these events in the decades of extraordinary progress for gay rights and trans rights. From the time when homosexuality was a crime and a mental illness to same-sex marriage. From when transsexuals were unable to obtain life-saving medical and surgical treatment to confirm their true identity to public understanding and celebration. Over a half century, these were battles in the sex and gender revolution.