Dr Tracie O’Keefe is clinical psychotherapist, psychosexual therapist and elder of the sex and/or gender diverse community who has worked with over 3000 patients from sex and/or gender diverse groups over five decades. Sometimes being intersex or trans can be a marginalising, challenging or a difficult journey. You may feel you have not been able… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, presented to the Gendy’s Conference, Manchester, UK, Autumn 1996 In the fifties Harry Benjamin withstood accusations that he was pandering to the delusions of an effeminate homosexual male, when he assisted in Christina Jorgenson’s feminisation. Now, the public draw new breaths of fascination as Emma Thompson dramatises the agonies and… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, presented to the Northern Gender Dysphoria Conference, Gateshead, UK, April 1997 This may seem a funny title for a paper delivered to the gender dysphoric and their carers or even the ex-gender-dysphoric, if indeed, for some the issue of the dysphoria is gender, and not a matter of physiological sex…. Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH first published in 1997. Reprinted in Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations by the same author, 1999. I am Tracie O’Keefe, a clinical hypnotherapist and psychotherapist at the London Medical Centre, London, England. Not only am I a clinician who treats transsexuals but I am also a transsexual myself…. Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH first published in December 1997. Reprinted in Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations by the same author, 1999. As the 20th century draws to a close the availability of cross-biological sex hormone administration has been available for nearly 80 years. To begin with hormones were were used for people… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH first published in July 1997. Reprinted in Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations by the same author, 1999. In this paper I am considering the administration of hormone treatment therapy to the transgendered individual and who specifically does not identify as being transsexual. In my 1997 book Trans-X-U-All: The… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH first published in June 1997. Reprinted in Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations by the same author, 1999. The discourse of this paper is centred around the correctness of timing in the administration body-altering hormones to those people with GID syndrome or those who are expressing their less polarised… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH December 2000, published in Gendys Journal, UK For many years the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) has recommended Standards of Care (SOC) to practitioners treating and helping people with sex and gender dysphoria. Many doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and endocrinologists have fought for and taken a great deal… Read More

A Paper Presented to the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) Conference Galveston, Texas, October 2001 by Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH NB Due to the war in Afghanistan, Dr O’Keefe was unable to attend the above conference. Abstract This paper looks at six cases of people within academia who have had attempts made against… Read More