Lee Badgett’s research focuses on economic inequality for sexual and gender-diverse populations, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty, and on the global cost of homophobia and transphobia. Her work as a “public professor” includes analysing public policies, consulting with regulatory bodies, briefing policymakers, and writing op-ed pieces.
Development efforts should provide all individuals, including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, with the opportunity to live with the identities they choose
