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In 2015 Beemyn was given a Research and Assessment Award from the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Genny Beemyn – Research and Assessment Award|author=Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals|url=https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/beemyn%20-%20award.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411015507/https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/beemyn%20-%20award.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> In 2019, they were given the Lou Sullivan Torch Award for their work in scholarship and advocacy for transgender inclusion on college campuses.<ref name="dail_Ston" /> | In 2015 Beemyn was given a Research and Assessment Award from the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Genny Beemyn – Research and Assessment Award|author=Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals|url=https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/beemyn%20-%20award.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411015507/https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/beemyn%20-%20award.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> In 2019, they were given the Lou Sullivan Torch Award for their work in scholarship and advocacy for transgender inclusion on college campuses.<ref name="dail_Ston" /> | ||
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{{Quote|Being seen as a nonbinary trans person is very important to me, as both a personal | |||
reflection of my identity and a political challenge to the dominant gender system. But I struggle at times with how to be recognizable and thus recognized as trans, when being transgender is often equated with being a binary trans person who has or is transitioning. Moreover, to the extent that nonbinary trans people are perceived by the larger society, it is because our gender “stands out”—i.e., because we are not readily able to be placed within a gender binary or our | |||
appearance sends “mixed gender signals.” The result is that only individuals who present androgynously or whose gender expression clearly violates societal expectations get to be nonbinary. For me, this means that my gender identity is often invisible, especially as I age and look more male because of the long-term effects of testosterone. I am left wondering how to enact my gender in the absence of visible signs of gender nonconformity, as well as the absence of cultural images of older nonbinary people. Society may never “get” me in my lifetime, but I | |||
can only be myself.}} | |||
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