Willy Wilkinson

Willy Wilkinson
Willy Wilkinson speaking at San Francisco Trans March 2015
Website	http://www.willywilkinson.com/

Willy Wilkinson is a writer, public health consultant, and LGBTQ activist from California, United States.^[1][2] As an expert in transgender issues, he has worked extensively with health care organizations, educational institutions, businesses and other entities on increasing access for LGBT populations.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Willy Wilkinson was born in San Mateo, California in the early 1960s. He was born female and is the youngest of four children. His father is Caucasian, Scottish, English, and Irish and grew up in Oakland. His mother is Chinese from Hawaii.^[1] He is the youngest of four kids.

When Willy was nine years old, he changed his name to Willy. It took his mother fifteen years adapt to the name change.

Wilkinson received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Women's Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also received his Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Community Health Education from UC Berkeley.^[4]

Honors and awards

• 2004: National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Writing Award for his article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the social and political intersections of his parents' interracial marriage and his own same-sex marriage.^[1][5]
• 2014: Transgender Law Center Claire Skiffington Vanguard Award (2014) ^[2][6]
• 2015: Keynote Speaker at UC Berkeley's Queer and Asian Conference ^[7]
• 2015: Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Community (APIQWTC), Phoenix Award^[8] (Willy Wilkson is the first transgender man to receive this honor).

Published work

• Wilkinson, W. (2006). Public health gains of the transgender community in San Francisco: Grassroots organizing and community-based research. In P. Currah, R. Juang, & S. Minter (Eds.), Transgender rights (pp. 192–214). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Lambda Literary Award Finalist] ^[1]
• Wilkinson, W. (2015). Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency. ^[1]
• Global perspective on transgender cultural competency in the inaugural edition of Transgender Studies Quarterly,
• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (2014), explores the intersections between mixed heritage and trans experience^[9]
• Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves addresses racism, Asian female subjugation, and transgender expression, and was described as “highly evocative” by the Lambda Literary Review.^[10]
• Wilkinson, W. (Fall 2015) Willy Wilkinson's memoir, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency will highlight his intersectional experiences of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and parenthood with reflections from cultural competency, public health, and political advocacy.^[11]

Personal life

He lives in Oakland, California with his three children.^[6][12]

References

1. Wilkinson, Willy. "Willy Wilkinson Homepage". Willy Wilkinson Homepage. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
2. "Introducing Our Vanguard Awardee Willy Wilkinson – Father, Writer, and Public Health Consultant". Transgender Law Center. Transgender Law Center. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
3. "Willy Wilkinson and Kylar Broadus in Conversation: Measuring ourselves by our own yardstick". FeministWire. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
4. "Center Institute of Integral Studies - Faculty Page". Center Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
5. "APIQWTC". Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
6. Broverman (14 June 2014). "WATCH: A Trans Dad on Telling His Kids About Gender". Advocate. Neal. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
7. "QACON 15 | Amplify". qacon15.qacon.org. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
8. "Phoenix Award Honorees | Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community". www.apiqwtc.org. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
9. "Willy Wilkinson: Writer and Public Health Consultant". Willy Wilkinson: Writer and Public Health Consultant. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
10. "‘Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves’ edited by Zander Keig and Mitch Kellaway". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
11. "Willy Wilkinson: Writer and Public Health Consultant". Willy Wilkinson: Writer and Public Health Consultant. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
12. http://www.willywilkinson.com/#!about/c1pg1. Missing or empty |title= (help)