Dr. Tobias Wiggins is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU). His federally funded research program centres transgender health and sexuality, psychoanalysis, arts-based research, queer visual culture, clinical transphobia, and cisgender psychology. Wiggins’ work addresses the ongoing pathologization of gender diversity and supports trans-competent care and social advocacy. His recent publications appear in the Transgender Studies Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, as well as edited collections such as Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People, The Queerness of Psychoanalysis From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond, and Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities: Clinical Guidance for Psychotherapists and Counselors.

At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Gender and Social Justice Counselling, a program that integrates contemporary intersectional feminist and social justice theory with applied counselling practice, crisis intervention skills, and community-based mental health work. He has extensive experience with both in-person and online pedagogies, and teaches from a critical, transnational, and justice-oriented perspective across transgender studies, queer and feminist theory, decolonization, critical disability studies, qualitative methodologies, and psychoanalysis.

Wiggins is deeply engaged in fostering interdisciplinary academic communities and regularly organizes events while participating in conferences both locally and internationally. He directs TransLab, a research hub dedicated to producing and disseminating qualitative, theoretical, and arts-based research in Transgender Studies. He also serves as co-director of the Justice Webinar and Speaker Series (J‑Series), which features national and international scholars addressing social and transformative justice, anti-oppression, and equity. Beyond academia, he has been a lifelong community organizer, counsellor, and advocate committed to meaningful health care for marginalized communities.

Wiggins, T. (2024). Gird your loins: The transgender psychoanalysts are coming!. E. Punzi, V. Sinclair, & M. Sauer (Eds.) The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times. Routledge.

Wiggins, T. (2023). How Cis?: Recognizing and Managing Transphobic Countertransference in Psychotherapy. T. G. Goetz, & A. S. Keuroghlian (Eds.), Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People. American Psychiatric Association, pp. 171-184.

Wiggins, T. (2022). Do Psychoanalysts Dream of Polymorphous Sleep: Clinical Desiring with Transgender Subjects. 23(2), 146-162. Journal of Gender and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072578

Wiggins, T. (2021). Listening for Trans Childism in Discursive Concern. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 75(1), 191-197. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00797308.2021.1975461

Gozlan, O., Osserman, J., Silber, L., Wallerstein, H., Watson, E., Wiggins, T. (2021). Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 75(1), 198-214. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00797308.2021.1975462

Wiggins, T. & Woodams, E. (2020). A Dialogue on Therapeutic Peer-to-Peer Models for Trans and Nonbinary Surgical Support. QED: A Journal In GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(3), 39-52. muse.jhu.edu/article/781359.

Wiggins, T. (2020). A Perverse Solution to Misplaced Distress: Trans Subjects and Clinical Disavowal. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 7(1), 56–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7914514

Wiggins, T. (2020). The Pervert on Your Couch: Psychoanalysis and Trans/Sexual Health. In J. Niemira, G, Jacobson, & K. Violet (Eds.), Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities: Clinical Guidance for Psychotherapists and Counselors. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 155–181.

Wiggins, T. (2020). Non-Recognition and Healing Transgender Trauma with Yoga. In M. Klein (Ed). Embodied Resilience: 30 mindful essays about finding empowerment after addiction, trauma, grief, and loss. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, pp. 157 – 166.

Wiggins, T. (2020). Leave Britney Alone!: And Other Spectral Affects. In A. Mitchell & C. McKinney (Eds.), Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Vancouver: UBC Press; Toronto: Art Gallery of York University; Los Angeles: The ONE Archive, pp. 194–196.

Wiggins, T. (2017). Encountering Inheritance in Vivek Shraya’s I want to kill myself. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 4(3–4), 668–674. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-4190046

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