Center for Applied Transgender Studies

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Center for Applied Transgender Studies
FoundedJanuary 29, 2021;3 years ago (2021-01-29) [1]
FoundersTJ Billard, Avery Everhart, and Erique Zhang
Type Nonprofit research organization
86-2111392 [2]
Legal status 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Purpose Academic research, policy advocacy, and public education
Location
TJ Billard [3]
Revenue (2021)
less than $50,000 [4]
Website www.appliedtransstudies.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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]

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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

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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