[Air-L] New report: Trans Digital Rights

[Jess Reia]

Dear colleagues,

We want to share with you our recently launched report, “Trans Digital
Rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse
communities.” Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that
center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?

The increasing attacks on trans rights are part of a coordinated global
agenda, and responding to them will help us reflect on adjacent digital
rights and data justice issues, from reproductive rights to freedom of
expression. Gender-diverse individuals face specific challenges navigating
digital spaces, but there is still a gap between trans and digital rights
advocacy. With the widespread adoption of AI and ongoing threats to
democracy, we need to reimagine how we protect trans people.

With that in mind, we developed the Trans Digital Rights (TDR) framework,
based on a transnational two-year research project that explores issues
related to data collection, citizen-generated data, AI, and platform
regulation. We propose policy and advocacy recommendations, hoping the TDR
framework can be used, changed, adapted, critiqued, and built upon.

You can download it here: https://doi.org/10.18130/m2zw-2g87

Thank you,

J.


*Jess Reia, Ph.D.  (they/them)*
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Faculty co-lead, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab
<https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/digital-technology-democracy-lab>,
University
of Virginia
reia at virginia.edu | https://datascience.virginia.edu/

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Public Policy
<https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/main.htm>, Fudan University
2024-2025 Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology
<https://cdt.org/>
<https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/>

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