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Center for Applied Transgender Studies

The Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS) is an independent nonprofit research organization founded in 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.[5] The organization works to promote empirical academic research on issues of relevance to transgender populations globally and mobilizes scholarly knowledge to engage in both policy advocacy and public education.[6][7][8][9] Together with Northwestern University Libraries, CATS publishes the platinum open access peer-reviewed academic journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

Center for Applied Transgender Studies
FoundedJanuary 29, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-01-29)[1]
FoundersTJ Billard, Avery Everhart, and Erique Zhang
TypeNonprofit research organization
86-2111392[2]
Legal status501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
PurposeAcademic research, policy advocacy, and public education
Location
TJ Billard[3]
Revenue (2021)
less than $50,000[4]
Websitewww.appliedtransstudies.org Edit this at Wikidata

Within the transgender movement, CATS is best known for combating widespread misinformation about transgender health and politics.[6][7][14][16][17] Within academia, the organization is best known for its development and advancement of applied transgender studies as a key area of scholarly research.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

History

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The Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS) was founded on January 29, 2021, by academic researchers and transgender rights activists TJ Billard, Avery Everhart, and Erique Zhang.[1][4] The three founders formed the organization's initial board of directors, with Billard serving as the organization's first executive director.[3] V Varun Chaudhry and Ryan Karnoski later joined the board as at-large representatives.[25] The organization was publicly launched on March 31, 2021, in commemoration of International Transgender Day of Visibility.[6][7]

CATS launched as a closed membership organization whose members are referred to as Fellows.[7][25] Members join the organization at one of two different ranks: Senior Fellow (meaning the member holds one or more terminal degrees) or Junior Fellow (meaning the member is enrolled in a terminal-degree-seeking program).[26] At the time of the organization's launch, CATS consisted of 30 Fellows, 20 of whom were Senior Fellows and 10 of whom were Junior Fellows.[6][9] This cohort of Fellows included scholars working in five countries and at a variety of research institutions, including Google, Johns Hopkins University, NASA, New York University, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, and the University of Washington.[7][8][3] In July 2021, CATS opened competitive applications for new members, who were evaluated and appointed by the organization's board of directors.[26] In December 2021, the organization announced that 10 of the nearly 200 applicants were selected to join CATS as Fellows, with four new Senior Fellows and six new Junior Fellows joining.[27] These Fellows included scholars from Stanford University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Yale University.[27] CATS prioritizes the principle of “by trans people... for trans people,” and thus all of the organization's Fellows are transgender.[7]

Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies

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Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
 
DisciplineTransgender Studies
LanguageEnglish
Edited byThomas J Billard
Publication details
History2022–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Platinum open access
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (by-nc-nd)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Bull. Appl. Transgend. Stud.
Indexing
ISSN2769-2124
OCLC no.1260250007
Links

On August 2, 2021, CATS announced the launch of its flagship publication, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.[28] The journal is published by Northwestern University Libraries on behalf of the organization.[10][11][15][29] The Bulletin is the first open access journal dedicated to transgender studies and the first journal dedicated to empirical research on transgender social, cultural, and political issues.[10][11][12] In contrast, Transgender Studies Quarterly (published by Duke University Press) focuses on humanistic inquiry,[30] while Transgender Health (published by Mary Ann Liebert) and the International Journal of Transgender Health (published by Taylor & Francis) focus on health research, and all three journals are paywalled.

The Bulletin is led by founding editor and CATS executive director Thomas J Billard and an interdisciplinary editorial board consisting of scholars from eight countries on four continents.[10][11][13][15][29] All of the journal's editorial board members are transgender, making it the first academic journal to have an all-trans editorial board.[10][12][13][14] Notable board members include Alejandra Caraballo, the second trans woman of color to teach at Harvard Law School, the first openly trans community board member in Brooklyn, and a former staff attorney at the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund,[31][32] and Paisley Currah, founding co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly and founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.

The Bulletin's inaugural double issue was published on June 13, 2022, featuring research from scholars across a range of academic disciplines.[33]

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References

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  20. ^ Johnson, Austin H.; Rogers, Baker A.; Taylor, Tiffany (2021-11-19), Johnson, Austin H.; Rogers, Baker A.; Taylor, Tiffany (eds.), "Conclusion: The Empirical Turn in Transgender Studies", Advances in Gender Research, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 223–225, doi:10.1108/s1529-212620210000032015, ISBN 978-1-80262-030-6, S2CID 239965509, retrieved 2022-04-01
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