Jan 13, 2023
Universities, professional organizations, and scientific publications are noticing the advocacy from the International Society of Nonbinary Scientists (ISNBS). "The group was established in 2020 to combat the isolation of being the 'only ones' at our institutions," a description on its website reads. A recent article published by INTO shared feelings of exclusion and the institutional remedies that ISNBS has pursued within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). One member told INTO that "'stepping into a world where there's not a lot of obvious nonbinary STEM members, there's [sic] not programs, there's not funding,'" and "'there's just not the same effort [to include trans people].'" A blog post announcing the two-year anniversary of ISNBS says that "[o]ne area where many students and scientists need additional comfort is fieldwork." A member launched a fieldwork project to "address