'My legacy should not be the name that isn't mine; the legacy should be mine.' On TransDayOfVisibility, learn more about the transgender scientists who have been pushing for changes to the scientific publishing industry to make it more inclusive.
When Teddy Goetz—a fourth-year medical student at Columbia University—applied to residency programs in October 2020, he felt as though he had no choice but to out himself as transgender."I had to put my birth name all over my application because of my publications, and that was really upsetting," he says. He changed his legal name to Teddy last year. But many of his papers listed him using his birth name.
Many journals view their policies as a work in progress and are continuing to engage in discussions about how to implement the changes. For instance, it's not clear how publishers will work together to update the reference lists of previously published papers."It can't be something that one publisher tackles all by themselves," says Jessica Rucker, the director of global editorial operations at ACS, which is actively working on how to deal with citations.
The changes will also likely benefit other groups, such as people who grapple with name changes because of marriage and divorce."I didn't change my name when I got married, not because I thought I was ever going to divorce my husband," says Susan Morrissey, ACS's director of communications."I had already published, so I wanted to keep that record.
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