Center for Applied Transgender Studies
| Founded | January 29, 2021 |
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| Founders | TJ Billard, Avery Everhart, and Erique Zhang |
| Type | Nonprofit research organization |
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| Legal status | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | Academic research, policy advocacy, and public education |
| Location | |
| TJ Billard | |
| Revenue | less than $50,000 (2021) |
| Website | www |
The Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS) is an independent nonprofit research organization founded in 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. The organization works to promote empirical academic research on issues of relevance to transgender populations globally and mobilizes scholarly knowledge to engage in both policy advocacy and public education. Together with Northwestern University Libraries, CATS publishes the platinum open access peer-reviewed academic journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
Within the transgender movement, CATS is best known for combating widespread misinformation about transgender health and politics. Within academia, the organization is best known for its development and advancement of applied transgender studies as a key area of scholarly research.