Trans-Kin: A Guide for Family and Friends of Transgender People

Cameron T. Whitley and Eleanor A. Hubbard, the co-editors

of Trans-Kin: A Guide to Family and Friends, have

extensive personal and professional experience with the

transgender community. They are also longtime friends,

having met at the University of Colorado and worked together

on several projects. Cameron, a transgender man, is currently

working on his Ph.D. in Sociology; Eleanor, an ally of the

transgender community, is a Senior Instructor in the

Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado at

Boulder. Together, they created this resource for SOFFAs

(Significant Others, Family members, Friends, and Allies)

recognizing the need for a guide to help SOFFAs tread new

ground in coming to terms with the transgender status of a

loved one. The purpose of this guide for family and friends

is to provide a safe space for SOFFAs to share their own

different, from their transgender loved one.

journeys, in some ways similar and in other ways quite

Eleanor A. Hubbard, Ph.D.

and Cameron Thomas Whitley, MA

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A Guide for Family & Friends

of Transgender People