Academic, Reference, and Book Publications

• Rawson, K. J., and Cristan Williams. 2014. “Transgender*: The Rhetorical Landscape of a Term.” Present Tense 3, no. 2: 1–9.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “Transgender.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, nos. 1–2: 232–234. doi:10.1215/23289252-2400136.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “Alpha Male.” In The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South, 276–278. Little Rock: Sibling Rivalry Press.
• Williams, Cristan. 2016. “Radical Inclusion: Recounting the Trans Inclusive History of Radical Feminism.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, nos. 1–2: 254–258. doi:10.1215/23289252-3334463.
• Williams, Cristan. 2020. “The Ontological Woman: A History of Deauthentication, Dehumanization, and Violence.” The Sociological Review 68, no. 4: 718–734. doi:10.1177/0038026120938292.
• Williams, Cristan. 2021. “TERFs.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn, vol. 2, 823–825. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Williams, Cristan. 2021. “Women’s Movement, Trans Inclusion in/Exclusion From.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn, vol. 2, 912–913. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Williams, Cristan. 2022. “A Letter to Young LGBTQI Activists.” In Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights, edited by Archie Bongiovanni, A. Andrews, and D. Stonewall, 117. New York: First Second Books.

Public Scholarship, Interviews, & Magazine Writing

• Williams, Cristan. 2011. “The Rise of ‘Transgender.” Originally published at The Bilerico Project; archived at Archive.org.
• Williams, Cristan. 2013. “TERF Battles.” OutSmart Magazine, December 1, 2013.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “TERF: What It Means and Where It Came From.” TransAdvocate, March 15, 2014.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate Interviews Judith Butler.” TransAdvocate, May 1, 2014.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “That Time TERFs Beat RadFems for Protecting a Trans Woman from Their Assault.” TransAdvocate, August 17, 2014.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “Fact Checking Janice Raymond: The NCHCT Report.” TransAdvocate, September 18, 2014.
• Williams, Cristan. 2014. “The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival: The Historic RadFem vs TERF vs Trans Fight.” The TERFs / TransAdvocate, September 2, 2014.
• Williams, Cristan. 2015. “Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The TransAdvocate Interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon.” TransAdvocate, April 7, 2015.
• Williams, Cristan. 2015. “Fact Check: Study Shows Transition Makes Trans People Suicidal.” TransAdvocate, November 2, 2015.
• Williams, Cristan, and John Stoltenberg. “Sex Essentialist Discourse.” The Conversations Project.
• Williams, Cristan. “Hate as a Cycle: Rhetoric, Morality, & Behavior.” The Conversations Project.
• Williams, Cristan. 2017. “Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF Slurs?” TransAdvocate, November 4, 2017. An audio-essay adaptation appeared shortly afterward.
• Williams, Cristan. 2020. “Your How-To Guide to Gender Critical Activism.” TransAdvocate, March 3, 2020.
• Williams, Cristan. 2021. “Fascism and Transphobia Are ALWAYS Linked.” TransAdvocate, January 11, 2021.
• Williams, Cristan. 2024. “Debunking the Dialectic of Design and Dimorphism.” TransAdvocate, January 23, 2024.
• Williams, Cristan. 2024. “Gender-Critical Policy Causes Brain Damage in Trans Youth.” TransAdvocate, May 6, 2024.
• Williams, Cristan. 2025. “Transphobia & Narcissistic Stupefaction.” TransAdvocate, January 30, 2025.
• Williams, Cristan. 2025. “Why ‘Biological Sex’ Is Not Real.” TransAdvocate, August 20, 2025.
• Williams, Cristan. 2026. “Survey Discovery: 1,165 Trans People from Mid-2010s.” CristanWilliams.com, January 13, 2026.

Publications Citing my Work

• Amato, Viola. 2016. Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript Publishing. Cites Williams at p. 299.
• Baumle, Amanda K., ed. 2013. International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Dordrecht: Springer. Cites Williams at p. 5.
• Beck, Dorothee, Adriana Zaharijević Habed, and Annette Henninger, eds. 2024. Blurring Boundaries: “Anti-Gender” Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich. Cites Williams at p. 233.
• Beilby, James K., and Paul Rhodes Eddy, eds. 2019. Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. Cites Williams at pp. 1–3.
• Bianco, Marcie. 2023. Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. New York: PublicAffairs. Cites Williams at p. 11.
• Bird, Jackson. 2020. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place. New York: Simon & Schuster / Simon Element. Cites Williams at p. 217.
• Chambers, Clare. 2024. Freedom and Equality: Essays on Liberalism and Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cites Williams at p. 34.
• Cooper, Mandy L., and Andrew Popp, eds. 2023. The Business of Emotions in Modern History. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Cites Williams at p. 88.
• Corbett, Emily. 2024. In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Cites Williams at p. 263.
• Cornwall, Susannah. 2022. Constructive Theology and Gender Variance: Transformative Creatures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cites Williams at p. 107.
• Crawford-Lackey, Katherine, and Megan E. Springate, eds. 2020. Identities and Place: Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States. New York: Berghahn. Cites Williams at p. 25.
• Dufourcq, Annabelle, Annemie Halsema, Katrine Smiet, and Karen Vintges, eds. 2024. Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy. Nijmegen: Radboud University Press. Cites Williams at p. 240.
• Eder, Sandra. 2022. How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cites Williams at p. 2.
• Fawaz, Ramzi, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, and Shelley Streeby, eds. 2021. Keywords for Comics Studies. New York: New York University Press. Cites Williams at p. xiii.
• Fischer, Clara, and Luna Dolezal, eds. 2018. New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Cites Williams at p. 1.
• Ford, Vanessa, and Rebecca Kling. 2024. The Advocate Educator’s Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive. Hoboken: Jossey-Bass. Cites Williams at p. 34.
• Fritsch, Kelly, Clare O’Connor, and A. K. Thompson, eds. 2016. Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. Chico: AK Press. Cites Williams at p. 21.
• Geffen, Sasha. 2020. Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary. Austin: University of Texas Press. Cites Williams at p. 233.
• Goins, Marnel Niles, Joan Faber McAlister, and Bryant Keith Alexander, eds. 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication. New York: Routledge. Cites Williams at p. 18.
• Goldberg, Abbie E., and Genny Beemyn, eds. 2021. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Cites Williams at pp. 1–2.
• Gregg, Ronald, and Amy Villarejo, eds. 2021. The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cites Williams at p. 1.
• Hanssmann, Christoph. 2023. Care without Pathology: How Trans-Health Activists Are Changing Medicine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Cites Williams at p. 27.
• Heyam, Kit. 2022. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. New York: Seal Press. Cites Williams at p. 13.
• Houck, Judith A. 2024. Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cites Williams at p. 193.
• Keegan, Cáel M. 2018. Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Cites Williams at p. 5.
• Langsdale, Samantha. 2024. Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics. Austin: University of Texas Press. Cites Williams at p. 202.
• Lewis, Sophie. 2025. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books. Listed on your research-impact page as citing Williams; page number not supplied there.
• Mackay, Finn. 2021. Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex. London: Bloomsbury / I.B. Tauris. Cites Williams at p. 15.
• McKinney, Cait. 2020. Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press. Cites Williams at p. 175.
• Michals, Debra. 2025. She’s the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Cites Williams at p. 216.
• Oren, Tasha, and Andrea L. Press, eds. 2019. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism. New York: Routledge. Cites Williams at p. 1.
• Paige, Tamsin Phillipa, and Claerwen O’Hara, eds. 2025. Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities. New York: Routledge. Cites Williams at p. 187.
• Parco, James E., David A. Levy, Daniel DePorres, and A. Sandoval, eds. 2023. Attitudes Aren’t Free: A Call to Action, vol. 2. Enso Books. Cites Williams at p. 48.
• Riseman, Noah. 2023. Transgender Australia: A History since 1910. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Cites Williams at p. 233.
• Riseman, Noah, and Shirleene Robinson. 2020. Pride in Defence: The Australian Military and LGBTI Service since 1945. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Cites Williams at p. 196.
• Rosenberg, Tiina, Sandra D’Urso, and Anna Renée Winget, eds. 2021. The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Cites Williams at p. 1.
• Rosenberg, Tiina, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, and Sandra D’Urso, eds. 2024. Milestones in Feminist Performance. New York: Routledge. Cites Williams at p. 40.
• Samer, Roxanne. 2022. Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press. Cites Williams at p. 159.
• Sandercock, Tom. 2022. Youth Fiction and Trans Representation. New York: Routledge. Cites Williams at p. 7.
• Schuller, Kyla. 2021. The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism. New York: Bold Type Books. Cites Williams at p. 9.
• Segal, Lynne. 2017. Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy. London: Verso. Cites Williams at p. 12.
• Stein, Marc, ed. 2019. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. New York: New York University Press. Cites Williams at p. 25.
• Trueman, Carl R. 2020. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Wheaton: Crossway. Cites Williams at p. 54.
• Vider, Stephen. 2021. The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cites Williams at p. 233.
• Waugh, Thomas, and Brandon Arroyo, eds. 2019. I Confess! Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age. Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press. Cites Williams at p. 40.
• Weekley, David E. 2017. Retreating Forward: A Spiritual Practice with Transgender Persons. Eugene: Wipf and Stock / Resource Publications. Cites Williams at p. 17.
• Wymer, Kathryn C. 2021. Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship with the Use of Technology. New York: Routledge. Cites Williams at p. 48.

Additional Citations of my Work: Journals, Law Reviews, Policy Documents, & Scholarly Works

• Patterson, G. P. “Toward Trans Rhetorical Agency: A Critical Analysis of Trans Topics in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication Scholarship.”
  Cites: “Transgender*: The Rhetorical Landscape of a Term.”
• Johnson, Jennifer. “Why Identity Matters in the Restroom.” Mitchell Hamline Law Review.
  Cites: “The Rise of ‘Transgender’” and “Tracking Transgender: The Historical Truth.”
• Hines, Sally. “The Feminist Frontier: On Trans and Feminism.”
  Cites and discusses: “TERF Hate and Sandy Stone.”
• Rose, K. C. “Has the Future Already Been Forgotten? A Call for Reclaiming Feminism for an Inclusive Future.” William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law.
  Cites: “That Time TERFs Beat RadFems for Protecting a Trans Woman from Their Assault.”
• Pape, Madeleine. “Feminism, Trans Justice, and Speech Rights.” Law and Contemporary Problems 85, no. 2 (2022).
  Cites: “Radical Inclusion” and MacKinnon interview.
• Hemmings, Clare. “Anti-Gender’ Mobilizations, Affect, and Temporality.” 2022.
  Cites: My interview with Catharine A. MacKinnon.
• Draz, Marie. “Realness as Resistance: Queer Feminism, Neoliberalism and Early Trans Critiques of Butler.” Hypatia 37, no. 4 (2022).
  Cites: My Judith Butler interview.
• Dahms, Isabell. “Always Trouble: Gender before and after Gender Trouble.” Radical Philosophy 2, no. 7 (2020).
  Cites: My Judith Butler interview.
• “Performativity.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.
  Cites: My Judith Butler interview.
• Ferguson, L. “Gender Performance in the Sporting Lives of Young Trans* People.”
  Cites: My Judith Butler interview.
• Wu, Y. “Masculinity Construction in the All-Female Yue Opera’s Overseas Tours in the 1950s.” 2024.
  Cites: My Judith Butler interview.
• Lu, Junru, and coauthors. “Identifying the Toxic Speech of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists.” WOAH / ACL Anthology, 2022.
  Cites: “Radical Inclusion” and “The Ontological Woman.”
• Schoenbaum, Naomi. “Rethinking Sex as Biology under Equal Protection.” UC Davis Law Review.
  Cites: MacKinnon interview.
• Frank, Nathaniel, and coauthors. “DoD’s Rationale for Reinstating the Transgender Ban Is Contradicted by Evidence.” Palm Center report.
  Cites: “Fact Check: Study Shows Transition Makes Trans People Suicidal.”
• US Supreme Court docket materials.
  Cites: “Fact Check: Study Shows Transition Makes Trans People Suicidal.”
• Spindelman, Marc. “A Serial Essay on the LGBT Title VII Sex Discrimination Cases.”
  Cites: “Fact Check: Study Shows Transition Makes Trans People Suicidal.”
• Pearce, Ruth. Written evidence on the Gender Recognition Act reform.
  Cites: “Fact Check: Study Shows Transition Makes Trans People Suicidal.”
• Fraser, L. M. J. “Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet.” 2017.
  Cites: “TERF: What It Means and Where It Came From.”
• Zurn, P. Cisgender: Disorienting a category. 2026.
  Cites: “Are Misogynist, Homophobe, and TERF Slurs?” and Williams’s SAGE entry “TERFs.”
• “A Usable Queer Past.” GLQ 30, no. 2 (2024).
  Cites: “Radical Inclusion.”