Tey Meadow

Tey Meadow is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University and the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century.

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The Loaded Language Shaping the Trans Conversation

To focus on “desisters”—people who experience gender dysphoria and then ultimately decide not to transition—is to focus on the rarest of cases, and to ignore the vastly more common experience of trans teens: that of being second-guessed.
- Tey Meadow
- July 10, 2018