Aidan Key

Eighteen years after his initial collaboration with the WIAA (Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association) to create the nation’s first K-12 gender inclusion policy for trans and gender diverse athletes in sports, Aidan Key was interviewed by the Seattle Times to provide his expert perspective regarding the introduction of proposed restrictive amendments that, if approved, would violate the long-standing legal rights of trans student athletes. See the Seattle Times interview here. Front page, above the fold!
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/wa-school-districts-propose-banning-transgender-athletes-from-girls-sports/

Today!! Okaeri's Trans Symposium for the Nikkei LGBTQ+ community.

A huge welcome to T.J. Jourian, the most recent addition to the Gender Diversity team!
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T.J. Jourian is an independent scholar, consultant, and coach with 20 years of experience working with higher education institutions, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, associations, and community-based entities across Turtle Island (presently known as the US). His practice, advocacy, and scholarship center trans and q***r people of color's experiences, perspectives, and leadership, and are driven by intersectional and liberatory movements. As a student affairs practitioner, T.J. has experience in LGBTQ life, residential life, women's center work, multicultural affairs, and leadership. Additionally, he has served as faculty at five different institutions, coordinated events at a regional religious nonprofit, and was an instructional designer for a global learning and development company.

T.J. earned his doctorate in higher education at Loyola University Chicago, studying how trans masculine college students conceptualize masculinity. He has published extensively in journals, books, monographs, and blogs, including the co-edited books Queerness as Being in Higher Education: and Queerness as Doing in Higher Education: Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners. T.J.'s research examines race, gender, and sexuality in higher education, with particular attention to masculinity, transness, and racialization; campus gender and sexuality centers and practitioners; and trans*ing constructs and methodologies. Residing on unceded territory of the Lenni Lenape people – currently known as Philadelphia, PA – T.J. appreciates quiet times with his cat, good food and good drinks, and all the travel he can find the funds and time for.