6 students standing at a desk with a transgender flag hanging from the front of the table. Leaflets and fliers are on the table with a board with information about GLINTS behind.
The University of Glasgow is home to the Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies (GLINTS) - a safe space for nurturing the research of academics and research students working in trans studies.
 
Trans studies is an established interdisciplinary field that includes (but is not limited to) enquiries into: the meaning of gender as a socially constructed, relational, and historically contingent category; the lives and experiences of people in the past and present who live in some way at odds with the gender they were assigned at birth; strategies for addressing the oppression that intersex, non-binary, and trans people have faced and continue to face; and creative practice that responds either to abstract conceptualisations of the meaning of gender or to trans lived experience.
 
The GLINTS team is committed to interrogating, understanding, and improving the social, political, and material conditions that shape intersex, non-binary, and trans lives, in an academic environment that respects and affirms intersex, non-binary, and trans people.
 
If you are a student who is engaged in trans studies or want to know more about this field, please get in touch with the GLINTS team at glints@glasgow.ac.uk to find out more.

First published: 13 November 2025

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