Transfeminist Methodology

The author was driven to abandon the practitioner side of higher education and student affairs in order to pursue an academic route, one that would position the author as an influencer in the production of trans and gender‐non‐conforming (TGNC)‐inclusive and TGNC‐centered scholarship, as well as in the prioritizing of equity work across institutions. This chapter focuses on the former: the desire to rectify both the continued lack of much‐needed research and the dominance of the cisgender voice and gaze in that research which still exists. As such, it seeks to deconstruct the scholarship's methodological and conceptual cissexism and its impact, to identify practices that can defuse this problem in future research, and to highlight TGNC‐driven research and scholars. In doing so, the chapter problematizes the assumed neutrality and objectivity of cisgender researchers, who have long dominated scholarly gender discourse, entrenching it in an essentialist binary.