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This article discusses how therapists should begin practice with preoperative male-to-female transgender clients. Preoperative male-to-female transgender clients often present with specific and unique psychological and social issues distinct from gay male and lesbian clients. Therapists must be ready to assess and help diagnose these in prepreparation for work with gender queer clients. The details of a specific gender queer client that the therapist writing the article has worked with are presented, including the mental health issues that the client has gone through in dealing with being gender queer. The background of the relationship of the client and the client's partner, including the feelings of the partner towards the patient having an sex reassignment surgery are discussed.

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Vol. 16 Issue 2, p99-104 6p