This January, National Geographic magazine published a historic issue focusing on the shifting landscape of gender. Luca Maurer, program director of the Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services, was an integral part of that issue.
Maurer served as a consultant to National Geographic as they put this issue together. The partnership began in the fall of 2016, when the issue was being prepared for publication. Many of the terms in the issue’s glossary were developed in consultation with Maurer and Eli R. Green of Widener University, and built upon the work in their book The Teaching Transgender Toolkit: A Facilitator’s Guide to Increasing Knowledge, Decreasing Prejudice & Building Skills. Maurer worked with the editors, research team, online content specialists, graphic designers, and other staff, resulting in an issue that has been one of the magazine’s best-sellers, and in a significant dialogue among readers. Maurer also helped the editors craft responses to some of the common questions readers posed.
An overwhelming majority of the feedback to the issue has been positive. With a topic as timely as this - a conversation taking place right now in a national context in media, government, and education, as well as in a personal context in people's families, homes and lives - National Geographic has provided a way to further these discussions in very deep, honest, accurate ways.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20170201170636220