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Now, I don’t think this responsibility should fall on Grace Lavery, who has a full-time job in an entirely different area, to do this sort of journalism. “Informed way,” in this case, means acknowledging that the Dutch clinic appears to have racked up some impressive results so far, but that there are also some limitations to what can be drawn from them. Here's where you can find me online. She's witty and hilarious while also clearly caring deeply for her students and the subject matter. And it works! Many of the explanations Lavery found just didn’t cut it, which led her to do her own scholarly research. I’m 37 years old; I have a career. Serano, to my knowledge, has never claimed desistance is an all-out myth. This was from an on-the-record interview, but I feel weird about dragging clinicians back into this controversy by name when it’s just for a Medium post, so I’m going to refer to this one, whose actual gender I’m not revealing, as “Dr. Lavery, who was hired as a professor in Victorian literature in 2013, became interested in trans studies after reading the work of 19th century writer, Since coming out in 2018, Lavery has become one of Cal’s experts on the subject of trans studies. It doesn’t depend on the kind of inherent dignity of the marriage form as. She made me think harder about the material! I think like maybe one or two undergrads, maybe two or three grad students over the last few years. Daniel’s portion has not been published. And so these marches have been just some of the really unusual opportunities that we’ve had to connect with other human beings and to be in the same spaces as other bodies. You began transitioning in early 2018, while a professor at Berkeley, and in one of your essays you wrote of the experience: “Academia has made a place for my transition, and allowed it to be important, but not definitive of my work. Grace Lavery is an associate professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley and a general editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly.Her first book, Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan was published by Princeton UP in 2019 and her scholarly essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Differences, TSQ, ELH, PMLA, and elsewhere.

Her intellectual and cultural interests have grown to include psychoanalytic theories like “selfhood of desire and language of the imagination.” Now a tenured professor, she is slated this fall to teach the first graduate-level course in trans studies, “Symposia in Trans Method,” a series of conversations with visiting trans activists, writers, and academics. I’ve been surprised at how many faculty have vaguely understood what I was doing.”. And I taught a trans studies class to undergraduates in the English department for the first time.