Henry Rubin

{{Short description|American sociologist}} {{for|the American filmmaker|Henry Alex Rubin}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Henry S. Rubin |image = |caption = |birth_date = 1966 |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |known_for = Transsexual studies |alma_mater = |employer = Quincy College |occupation = Sociologist |boards = |website = }}

'''Henry S. Rubin''' (born 1966) is an American sociologist known for work on transsexualism.<ref name="ryan2004">Ryan, Joelle Ruby (September 22, 2004). New millennium trannies: gender-bending, identities, and cultural politics. ''Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources.''</ref>

==Early life and education== Rubin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 from University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree and Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1996.

==Career== After lecturing at Harvard University from 1996 to 2000, Rubin held one-year assistant professorships at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2000 and Hamilton College in 2001. He was appointed at Tufts University in the Media & Communications department from 2002-2005, working as a research analyst at Harvard University during that time. Following a one-year position as programs coordinator at Colleges of the Fenway in 2005, Rubin took a position as an instructor at Quincy College in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 2007.

Rubin's work explores the political tensions that emerge from differing worldviews and identities within the LGBT community.<ref name="rubin2003">Rubin, Henry (2003). ''Self-made men: identity and embodiment among transsexual men.'' Vanderbilt University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8265-1435-6}}</ref>

Rubin is known for arguing that the most meaningful division is not between the queer and transsexual communities, but between the transgender and transsexual communities.<ref name="halberstam1998">Halberstam, Judith (1998). Female masculinity. Duke University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8223-2243-6}}</ref>

He has also explored how the "logic of treatment" is different for trans men and trans women, outlining the now-outdated use of chemical castration on female-to-male people.<ref name="stryker2006">Stryker Susan and Stephen Whittle (2006). ''The transgender studies reader.'' CRC Press, {{ISBN|978-0-415-94709-1}}</ref> Rubin is a thought leader in the movement to distance transsexual political interests from those of the transgender movement as that movement becomes more aligned with the queer movement.<ref name="code2003">Code, Lorraine (2003). ''Encyclopedia of feminist theories.'' Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0-415-30885-4}}</ref>

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