We’re starting the year off strong!
The Center for Applied Transgender Studies is getting to work in 2022, advancing our mission of educating the public and advocating for better, research-informed policy on transgender community needs.
As part of our mission of public education, the Center will be hosting a Distinguished Lecture Series throughout 2022. On Wednesday 16 March, Senior Fellow Austin H Johnson will kick off this series with his talk, “Applying Trans Studies, Building Structural Competency: Using Community Based Research to Support Trans Youth in the U.S. Southeast,” from 1–2pm Central Standard Time (US). The lecture will be hosted over Zoom and is open to the public. Registration is required, so be sure to register today!
Now for some headline news:
As of January, ten new Fellows have officially joined the Center! They are Senior Fellows Mikee Inton-Campbell, Clair Kronk, Rushaan Kumar, and SA Smythe, and Junior Fellows Stats Atwood, DC De La Haye, Jaden Janak, Jo Krishnakumar, Pato Laterra, and Apollo Rydzik. Please join us in welcoming these incredible scholars!
Senior Fellow Elle Lett was recently awarded the post-graduate 2021 Rising Black Scientists Awards from Cell Press.
On Friday 21 January, the Center hosted the Applied Trans Technology Studies Symposium, organized by Senior Fellows Oliver Haimson, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, and Alex Hanna, and featuring an all-star roster of scholars from across the United States. A video recording of the Symposium is available to stream.
In December, Senior Fellow Mikee Inton-Campbell gave a lecture on the history of trans advocacy in the Philippines at the first Philippine Transgender Summit hosted by the Society of Trans Women of the Philippines. A video recording of the lecture is available to stream.
Finally, we encourage you to submit your research to our platinum open access journal, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. Find submission guidelines here.
CATS in the Media
Executive Director TJ Billard was quoted in a The Lily article, “Andrea Jenkins is the Nation’s First Openly Trans City Council President. Here’s Her Plan for Minneapolis,” on January 12.
Distinguished Fellow Avery Everhart appeared on the Sexual and Reproductive Health podcast to talk about trans reproductive justice on February 1.
Senior Fellow Aniruddha Dutta was quoted in a Cosmopolitan article, “Here’s What to Know About the Term ‘Third Gender’,” on December 22.
Senior Fellows Eartha Mae Guthman and Simón(e) Sun were quoted in a The Harvard Gazette article, “Push for Inclusive Language in Sciences as Part of Transgender Rights Fight,” on February 10.
Senior Fellow Beck Strauss was featured extensively in a PBS NOVA article, “OSIRIS-REx is Bringing Back an Asteroid Sample. What Now?,” on January 6.
Upcoming Events
Senior Fellow Austin H Johnson will kick off the Center’s 2022 Distinguished Lecture Series with his talk, “Applying Trans Studies, Building Structural Competency: Using Community Based Research to Support Trans Youth in the U.S. Southeast,” on Wednesday 16 March from 1–2pm CST. The lecture will be hosted over Zoom and is open to the public. For more details, see here.
Senior Fellow T.J. Jourian will deliver a keynote at the LGBTQ+ Virtual Health Care Conference hosted by the Indiana University School of Medicine from March 24–26. Access the full conference agenda and register to attend here.
New Publications
Executive Director TJ Billard and Distinguished Fellow Erique Zhang recently published “Toward a Transgender Critique of Media Representation” in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Distinguished Fellow Avery Everhart recently published “‘I’m Not Interested in Research; I’m Interested in Services’: How to Better Health and Social Services for Transgender Women Living With and Affected by HIV” with Hayden Boska, Hagit Sinai-Glazer, Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Nora Butler Burke, Gabrielle LeBlanc, Yasmeen Persad, Evana Ortigoza, Ayden I. Scheim, and Zack Marshall in Social Science & Medicine. Together with Senior Fellow Elle Lett, she also published “Ethnoracial Inequities in Access to Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care and Psychological Distress among Transgender Adults” with Matthew P. Abrams, Arya Gold, and Farrah-Amoy Fullerton in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
Senior Fellow Chris Barcelos recently published “The Trans Youth Justice Project: A Political Education and Leadership Development Program” with j. nyla mcneil, Yanté Turner, and Edie Ma’iingan Redwine in the Journal of LGBT Youth.
Senior Fellow V Varun Chaudhry recently published “Funding Trans Resilience,” a report released by Gender Justice Fund.
Senior Fellows Eartha Mae Guthman and Simón(e) Sun recently published “Transgender Rights Rely on Inclusive Language” with Miriam Miyagi in Science.
Senior Fellow Elle Lett recently published “Conceptualizing, Contextualizing, and Operationalizing Race in Quantitative Health Sciences Research” with Emmanuella Asabor, Sourik Beltrán, Ashley Michelle Cannon, and Onyebuchi A. Arah in the Annals of Family Medicine. She also published “Health Equity Tourism: Ravaging the Justice Landscape” with Dalí Adekunle, Patrick McMurray, Emmanuella Ngozi Asabor, Whitney Irie, Melissa A. Simon, Rachel Hardeman, and Monica R. McLemore in the Journal of Medical Systems.
Junior Fellow Florence Ashley recently published “The Constitutive In/visibility of the Trans Legal Subject: A Case Study” in the UCLA Women’s Law Journal and “Youth Should Decide: The Principle of Subsidiarity in Paediatric Transgender Healthcare” in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Together with Travis Salway, they also recently published “Ridding Canadian Medicine of Conversion Therapy” in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Junior Fellow Jaden Janak recently published “Cultivating Solidarity from the Inside-Out: Abolitionist Efforts to Trans-gress the Prison Walls” in Behemoth: A Journal on Civilisation.