Dr. Genny Beemyn, Director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amhearst.
Listen to Admit It Episode 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and many other podcast services. Just search “Admit It AACRAO” in your favorite podcasting service.
As some of you may know, I have been engaged with AACRAO’s Student Identity Workgroup. The Workgroup is creating a report, based in the most current understanding around the needs of Trans students, that will serve as a guide to admissions, registrars, and technology vendors as we work to create more inclusive identity management in higher education.
It is within the context of this work that I started running into one name over, and over, and over, and over again in the peer reviewed literature: Dr. Genny Beemyn. Dr Beemyn is one of the foremost and prolific researcher in the area of the needs of Trans students in higher education settings. This interview was such a pleasure. I can’t tell you how much I learned from Dr. Beemyn.
Additional learnings:
The UMass Amhearst Stonewall Center
The National Center for Trans Equality
Elon University Trans Student resources (Elon is my hero forever. This is amazing)
The Lives of Transgender People book by Dr. Beemyn and Susan Rankin