Acceptable Losses - The Men & Women Who Transgress Gender Norms Abstract: In his book, Accetable Losses; The Men and Women Who Transgress Gender Norms, Gregory Pichler reports on a number of post-operative transsexuals, who failed to benefit from gender reassignment surgical procedures and watched their respective lives get worse and not better. Pichler also touches on the current psychiatric understanding of transsexual behaviour, the underlying causes and more recent research and theories that bring into question the current understanding. Pichler also discusses transsexualism as an emerging political movement and the GLBT organizations that routinely intimidate and harass medical practitioners, politicians and journalists, when these parties operate outside a prescribed belief system. Pichler also touches on feminism and the understanding of transsexualism through the feminist perspective. Pichler also touches on a number of other sexual phenomenas, including cross-dressing, she-males, and the sexual interest towards transvestites, transsexuals and shemales, and how the lines between the various phenomenas are blurred. Author: Gregory Pichler Access: Public Domain Date: 11/12/2007