As more people reject the disease models of gender diversity, we look back at those who stigmatized sex and gender minorities as being disordered. Most are in their 50s or older, with just a few protegés clinging to their outmoded ideology.
In 2003, I created an earlier version of this graphic, based on information as it was coming in. Since that time, the concept of social networking has entered the mainstream lexicon and is more easily achieved through software innovations. Below is a streamlined two-dimensional representation from 2010 of key figures in the academic pathologization of transgender people.
Key figures
Other academics
- Kurt Freund †
- James Cantor †
- Meredith Chivers † –
- Steven Pinker *
- David Buss *
- Lee Ellis *
- Simon LeVay
- Richard Pillard
- Alan Sanders –
- Khytam Dawood –
- Dean Hamer
- Seth Roberts
- Colette Chiland
- Janice Raymond
- Alice Dreger –
- Germaine Greer
- Susan Mineka –
- Jon Meyer
- George Rekers
- Susan Coates
- Gerulf Rieger –
- Elizabeth Latty –
- Martin Kafka
- NARTH
- Joan Linsenmeier –
- Domenico di Ceglie
Media apologists
- Steve Sailer *
- John Derbyshire *
- Dan Seligman *
- Jim Marks
- Benedict Carey
- Duncan Osborne
- Barbara Kline Pope
- Stephen Mautner
Trans apologists
- Anne Lawrence †
- Maxine Petersen †
- Denise Tree
- Heike Spreitzer
- Cheryl Chase
- Willow Arune
- Lisanne Anderson
- Hontas Farmer
- Anjelica Kieltyka –
- Jenn Ross †
Key
† Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
* Human Biodiversity Institute
– Northwestern University
Networking tools
The following programs are helpful for anyone looking at academic logrolling and nepotism from a networking standpoint.
- http://unison.sleonard.co.uk/
- http://visone.info/docs/firststeps/index
- http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
- http://socnetv.sourceforge.net/
- http://infovis-wiki.net/index.php?title=2007-10-27:_Skyrails:_Social_Network_Visualisation_System
- http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Download
- Microsoft Visio
- Valdis Krebs’ InFlow