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At the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, a trans researcher and renowned expert on sexuality and gender has been named the first chair in transgender studies.
With the help of a million-dollar donation from a U.S.-based foundation, Prof. Aaron Devor will work with the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences to advance study on issues that affect transgender people, such as healthcare, poverty, discrimination and suicide.
Devor, who is also transgender, is a professor in the university’s sociology department, an elected member of the elite International Academy of Sex Research and a fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
He said about one in 200 people are transgender — a higher number than many would imagine.
“We’re not talking about a minuscule part of the population,” he said. “Social change is very uneven. We’re seeing a lot of glamorous celebrity transgender people in the media these days, but that is not the reality for most transgender people’s lives.”
The new educational focus on trans issues isn’t happening only in Canada; a transgender studies program is in the works at the University of Arizona. This is much-needed and should set a precedent for schools all over the world.
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