Cary Gabriel Costello

Dr.
Cary Gabriel Costello
Alma mater Yale College (BA, 1986)
Harvard Law School (JD, 1990)
University of California, Berkeley (MA, 1994; PhD, 1999)[1]
Occupation Professor
Employer University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Known for Transgender and intersex advocacy

Cary Gabriel Costello is an intersex trans male professor and advocate for transgender and intersex rights.[2] His areas of study include identity, sexuality, privilege, and marginalization.[3]

Career and personal life

Assigned female at birth, Costello first attempted a gender transition in 1991, while working as an attorney in Washington, D.C.[4] Due to the discrimination he experienced, he postponed his transition, and left the legal profession to pursue a degree and career in sociology.[4] He transitioned to male after securing tenure as an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,[1][4] where he leads the LGBT Studies program.[5]

Costello has advocated for transgender and intersex people on issues including intersex surgery,[6] eugenics,[7] bathroom bills,[5] TSA airline passenger screening,[8] and the sometimes fraught relationships between intersex and transgender communities.[9][10] He has analyzed the controversy over the gender testing of South African athlete Caster Semenya from an intersex perspective.[11] Costello has suggested using the term ipso gender instead of cisgender for intersex people who agree with their sex assigned at birth.[12]

Costello is the gestational father of a daughter, and is married to an intersex trans woman.[2][6][13][14]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cary Costello". University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Cary Gabriel Costello". The New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Cary Costello". ResearchGate. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Costello, Cary Gabriel. "Cary Gabriel Costello (1992)". UC Berkeley Sociology Department. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Crowther, Katie (April 19, 2016). "North Carolina law sparks questions in Wisconsin". TMJ4. Scripps TV Station Group. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Costello, Cary Gabriel (August 10, 2015). "Advice on Being an Ally to Intersex People". Patheos. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  7. ↑ Dykerman, Katelyn Dykstra (March 3, 2015). "Eugenics and Intersex: The consequences of defining "normal" bodies". NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ Cory Doctorow (January 7, 2016). "Flying while trans: still unbelievably horrible". Boing Boing. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  9. ↑ Costello, Cary Gabriel (September 14, 2014). "Are Trans Communities Losing Intersex Allies in the TERF Wars?". TransFusion.
  10. ↑ Costello, Cary Gabriel (September 2014). "An intersex perspective on the trans, intersex and TERF communities". TransAdvocate. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  11. ↑ Costello, Cary (August 23, 2009). "Caster Semenya - An Intersex Perspective". National Sexuality Resource Center. Archived from the original on August 10, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  12. ↑ Sandeen, Autumn (September 18, 2014). "Ipso gender: A third term for intersex people". LGBT Weekly. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Cary Gabriel Costello, "Intersex and Trans* Communities: Sex and Gender Struggles"". Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The Ohio State University. October 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  14. ↑ Pate, James (January 21, 2012). "Dr Cary Gabriel Costello: Intersex Fertility". James Pate, MD. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

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