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Aidan Key
Aidan Key (born January 22, 1964) is an educator, author,
speaker, and community organizer. As a transgender man Aidan Key
active in LGBT rights, Key's ground-breaking[1] work includes
developing policies and procedures for the equality of
transgender children in schools grades K-12, comprising
challenging topics such as gender neutral bathrooms,[2][3]
transgender students' athletic participation (including locker
rooms), privacy and disclosure of transgender status, and
name and gender changes.

Contents
Career Key in Seattle
Media
Born January 22,
Speaking
1964
Personal
Kalamazoo,
Awards
Michigan,
References U.S.
External links
Occupation Author,
Public
Career Speaker

Key's expertise[4] on gender nonconformity in children has Known for Gender

informed gender-inclusive policy work within the WA Office of Odyssey
Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the Washington Conference
Intercollegiate Activities Association, and Seattle Public
Schools. Notable work Trans
Bodies;
Key authored the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves manual
addressing the support[5] and understanding[6] of transgender Trans
children .[7] He co-authored the article Gender Cognition in Selves
Transgender Children,[8] and has contributed to various
outlets including The Huffington Post,[9] and Welcoming Schools.[10]

Key founded the international Gender Odyssey conference in 2001,[11] which has since grown to
include the Gender Odyssey Family conference for transgender and gender-nonconforming children
and their families,[12] as well as the Gender Odyssey Professional conference,[13][14] providing
instruction to medical, mental health, and education professionals. Keynote speakers have included
notables such as Chaz Bono; Cheryl Kilodavis, author of My Princess Boy; Janet Mock; and author,

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performer and gender activist Kate Bornstein.[15]

Key co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Seattle Children's Gender Clinic,[16] and serves on the
advisory committee of TRANSform Washington,[17] a public education campaign advancing the
dignity, diversity and humanity of transgender and gender-diverse people. His past collaborations
include working with Three Dollar Bill Cinema to launch the Seattle Translations Film Festival [18] and
co-founding the Bay Area nonprofit Gender Spectrum.

Media
His perspective on trans issues has often been featured in the national media, including multiple
reports on CNN,[19][20] The Oprah Winfrey Show,[21] Reuters,[22] NPR’s Diane Rehm Show[23] and
Fresh Air with Terry Gross,[24] Al Jazeera America, The Huffington Post,[25] Inside Edition,
Nightline, the Seattle Times,[26] Parent Map,[27] and Larry King Live. His appearance on Larry King
Live inspired a Saturday Night Live skit spoofing the obvious confusion of the host on issues related
to transgender identities.[28][29]

Speaking
Key is a regular speaker at universities and conferences including the DSHS Children’s Justice
Conference 2013,[30] Adolescent Health Medicine Conference 2010, The Power of One: LGBT Student
Leadership,[31] and the Gender Odyssey Conference 2014.[32] He has been a featured speaker at
churches, universities, and special events.

Personal
Aidan Key is an identical twin. His twin sister, Brenda Bowers, has joined him for numerous media
appearances, including The Oprah Winfrey Show[33] and the ITV documentary The Secret Life of
Twins, and articles in numerous international publications. Key and Bowers were the impetus for the
launch of research by Milton Diamond, PhD, Transsexuality Among Twins,[34] studying the
concordance of transgender gender identity in identical twins.

Key is married, a father of one, and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Awards
2013 Trans 100: Inaugural Member of Trans 100[35]
Greater Seattle Business Association B&H Awards 2017 - Community Leader of the
Year[36]
Seattle Magazine, "Movers & Shakers: Seattle's Most Influential People of the Year
2019", TransFamilies Executive Director, Aidan Key, November 2019

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ink). Retrieved 2015-03-13.

2. "Bathroom battle: Parents rally behind transgender youth" (http://crosscut.com/2016/
06/bathroom-battle-parents-rally-behind-transgender-youth/). Crosscut. 2016-06-21.
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3. Lang, Nico (2017-03-13). "The Supreme Court won't hear Gavin Grimm's case this
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External links
Official website (http://genderdiversity.org)
Gender-nonconforming & Transgender Children on 3/13/2015 (https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=jVyFan29O7c)
Transgender and gender diverse identities in children on 3/13/2015 (https://www.yout
ube.com/watch?v=2yDOP5uhe8w)

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