So proud of our author @kevinguyan.bsky.social for being included in the 2026 Attitude 101, empowered by Bentley! Huge congratulations! 🥳 If you want to learn more about Kevin’s trailblazing work collecting and analysing queer data, check out his books🌈👇 @attitudemag.bsky.social #Attitude101

✨ Delighted to feature on the @attitudemag.bsky.social 101 list, which spotlights LGBTQ+ trailblazers from a variety of industries. I'm recognised for my work in STEM, which feels especially meaningful as someone from an arts and humanities background. #Attitude101 #LGBTQ #STEM #data

Join us tomorrow at 10am for a workshop on queer methods in social research! 🌈📚 We’re delighted to be joined by writer & researcher Dr @kevinguyan.bsky.social whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. sociology.web.ox.ac.uk/event/queer-...

📚 Big news for box breakers and fans of LGBTQ data! Rainbow Trap is publishing in paperback in June 2026. I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who's championed the book so far and I'm excited to get out there and spread the word about queer lives, categories and classifications.

CFP for a special issue on the global politics of anti-trans moral panics from transfeminist perspectives. Timely and necessary. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

📣 In our seminar this week, @kevinguyan.bsky.social reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day. 📆 12 Feb ➡️

"We welcome presenters from any background, with particular interest in hearing from artists, data practitioners/professionals, activists, & critical thinkers. We strongly encourage contributions that engage queer, trans, feminist, and non-conformist approaches to data" £150 + expenses for speakers

Are you a data nerd who enjoys thinking/being queer? Then share your work at the Queer Data Showcase in Manchester. 🏳️‍⚧️📊🏳️‍🌈

📢 Are you interested in queer data? The QUEER DATA SHOWCASE is returning in 2026 – and this time it’s coming to Manchester! The CALL FOR PRESENTERS is now live! www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

How do we measure LGBTQ representation in the arts? 📊 I'm in London next week talking about LGBTQ data in the creative industries: 📍 @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social 📅 12 Feb, 4pm 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ual-lgbtq-...

📆Friday 13th February: "Queer Data: Methods, Approaches, and What is Queer Social Research Anyway?" with @kevinguyan.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social. A workshop exploring how we think about and use data. Don't miss it!

Thread- Has there been a 'loss of data on sex', as the Sullivan Review argues? @kevinguyan.bsky.social's work unpicks this. Guyan notes: for Sullivan, ‘sex’ data only counts when trans people are *forced* to record sex aligned with what was assigned at birth. doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2611975

The idea that the 'mere presence' of a trans woman in a female prison automatically breaches others’ human rights 'should be rejected', Scotland’s human rights agency has told a court

I’m out and about this month to share ideas from Rainbow Trap! You can join us in LONDON, OXFORD and GLASGOW to explore all things queer data ✨ 📊

If you were interested in @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to the “Sullivan Review” yesterday, make sure you read @kevinguyan.bsky.social’s very recently published “Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mandating a binary, immutable definition of sex in research is epistemic vandalism. It doesn’t just erase trans people, it wreaks havoc on the tools of knowledge production, leading to less nuanced, less accurate, and less rigorous science.

U Glasgow has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & my critical paper on the 'Sullivan Review' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Many social scientists whom Jay & I talk to are (still) unaware of the Sullivan Review and its potential implications. Our paper aims to change this

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

I've just read this paper and it is very much worth half hour of your time if you are at all interested in data and the impacts on our trans siblings.

🎉 Delighted by the level of interest in my research article Trans-exclusionary Data Activism in the UK. Since publishing last week, it's had over 3,000 views! doi.org/10.1080/0958...

CFP REMINDER! Submissions are welcome of original research, by scholars of all backgrounds, broadly related to the study of language, sexuality, queerness & gender, particularly work which addresses the theme of ‘Queer (dis)belonging’. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪻 Deadline is 28/03, 2 months to go! lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Striking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority. (Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)

Reminder that our first QPaP seminar of 2026 with @kevinguyan.bsky.social is TODAY!! There is still time to sign up (and if you signed up in the last 24hrs a link will be sent to you soon!!): forms.gle/NUxukyDJbbnT...

Had a great time sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap with the Gender Politics Research Group at the University of Edinburgh - thanks for the invite! 🌈

Edinburgh ☀️

This is a key consultation and there is only a week left. If you haven't read the excellent work by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on how abuse of data standards is used to exclude us from public life, it's at doi.org/10.1080/0958... Please respond if you're able and get others to do so if you can.

📢 Are you a student or ECR at Oxford interested in queer data? We're looking for speakers to share work as part of the workshop: Queer data: Methods, approaches, and what is queer social research anyway? 📊 @sociologyoxford.bsky.social | 13 Feb | More info 👇 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/queer-...

First, they remove the data, then they say there is no proof trans people exist, because removing trans people and then hiding the data would be undeniably genocidal.

This is an important article, the way they engage in this sort of vandalism is harmful to trans people and damaging efforts to improve trans medicine. Good to see Dr Guyan being able to highlight it

Pleased to see coverage of my research on UK trans-exclusionary data activism in @scotnational.bsky.social 📊 www.thenational.scot/news/2578510...

I think this needs to shared widely. Especially to those who have the power to stop it.

Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.

This is brilliant and urgent research with pertinent relevance far beyond the UK, including in Norway.

Anti-trans 'data vandalism' damages scientific research, study finds www.thenational.scot/news/2578510... Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK doi.org/10.1080/0958... Followers may recall attempts at such maneuvering during passage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill #transrights #opendata

"Guyan’s study argues that excluding gender identities from data collection 'presents a more chilling form of power where trans people in data are not possible – when they appear in data, their presence is "wrong" or "inaccurate”'." archive.is/202601211442...

EXCLUSIVE: Anti-trans activists are negatively impacting scientific research by pushing for 'the existence of trans people to be an impossibility' in data gathering, according to a new study

The Futures of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Forum is taking place on Tues 27 Jan! 📊 We've overjoyed by the HUGE number of people registered – and would love for you to join us! 🕑 16.00 (GMT), 11.00 (ET), 08.00 (PT) 💻 Online 👋 All welcome Register here: sogidata.eventbrite.co.uk

Manchester! Date for your diaries: 10/06/26, and check out the call for presenters below: for artists, academics, activists and anyone else who works with – or is interested in – queer data 🤩 see @kevinguyan.bsky.social and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social for more!

This is very very well written and meticulously researched. Well worth reading (and available open access).

Great piece of scholarship by @kevinguyan.bsky.social about the way "sex" categories need to be forced in data collection to protect the myth that binary sex categories are "natural" and independent of the ideology/rhetoric of those imposing them...

This is superb work and very well written. Strongly recommend.

Important and very accessible paper. Very much welcome the term, "Trans-exclusionary data activism" for the actions of those trans-hostile pressure groups that seek to re-write data collection policies to erase trans people.

"The number of trans people is simultaneously presented as so large that their participation in data projects jeopardizes the quality of information gathered (), yet also so small that their concerns about how they are counted can be ignored ()" Well worth your time reading this:

This is a UK-specific look, but American activists and scholars should take note - these tactics can be employed (and in some instances already have been) in the US.

'As with trans-exclusionary activism more generally, the oxygen of trans-exclusionary data activism is controversy. Controversy is what keeps the show on the road, propelling the perma-coverage of campaign activities in the mainstream press '

“..the Supreme Court, the EHRC, the UK government, and data professionals have exposed the state as an illegitimate force” A crucial under-the-hood look at how anti-trans campaign groups like sexmatters and the EHRC are using data to erase trans+ people from public life Please share widely 👇🏼

Statistical data are even more powerful than we in the US policy space commonly recognize. It’s not just about money or “representation” in an abstract sense. This campaign to statistically define trans people out of existence is being waged in the US, too.

This was a fascinating read!

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