During our study of community-level stigma of transgender individuals, student researchers Bee and Wind provided a vital perspective from within the transgender community. In this presentation, both researchers will discuss their experiences as transgender individuals performing research on their own community. Here, they will briefly explain the project and its findings, and discuss their perspectives throughout the process, including the need for objectivity, maintaining boundaries during participant interviews, trans perspectives they believe to be missing from the small pool of participants, and the lines drawn between personal experience and fact when drawing conclusions.
