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'''Alex Iantaffi''' is a writer, educator, and therapist. | '''Alex Iantaffi''' is a writer, educator, and therapist. With [[Meg-John Barker]], they cowrote the books ''How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are'', ''Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between'', and ''Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma''. They are also the host of the Gender Stories podcast, and the editor-in-chief for Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy.<ref name="thoughtful">{{Cite web |title=EP58: Gender, Sexuality, and Mental Health – A Conversation with Alex Iantaffi |author= |work=The Thoughtful Counselor |date=12 October 2017 |access-date=17 July 2020 |url= https://thethoughtfulcounselor.com/2017/10/gender-sexuality-and-mental-health-a-conversation-with-alex-iantaffi/}}</ref> | ||
They grew up in Rome, Italy, and started going by the name "Alex" at the age of 14, inspired by the [[gender nonconforming]] character in ''Flashdance''. In their twenties, while living in England, they were briefly married to an abusive husband, then divorced him and came out as [[bisexual]], later coming out as a [[dyke]] | They grew up in Rome, Italy, and started going by the name "Alex" at the age of 14, inspired by the [[gender nonconforming]] character in ''Flashdance''. In their twenties, while living in England, they were briefly married to an abusive husband, then divorced him and came out as [[bisexual]], and later coming out as a [[dyke]] before returning to identifying as bisexual. In their late twenties, upon attending a BiCon for the first time, this was where they met [[trans]], [[gender nonconforming]], and [[genderfluid]] people for the first time. By their early thirties, Alex was out to a few people as [[genderqueer]] and [[genderfluid]]. Alex obtained their Ph.D. in 1999, and moved to the United States in 2008, where they became very involved with the trans community.<ref name="DTA" /> | ||
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