My research uses community-based, intersectional, mixed-methods approaches that center the lived experience and health of transgender and gender diverse people. I currently have 3 major areas of focus.
First, I am pioneering work elaborating on understandings of stigma and gender minority stress experiences of transgender and gender diverse people through life history and ethnographic interviews and mapping these onto the body as embodied stressors through integration of minimally invasive biomarker measures with an aim of addressing health disparities in these populations.
Second, I am working on expanding and adding nuance to current conceptualizations of gender and sex, as well as how we think about their entanglement. This work aims to add nuance to the ways that we study gender and sex broadly across disciplines.
Third, I conduct collaborative, applied research that focuses on addressing health disparities among LGBTQIA+ people, with a particular interest in the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse people.