Writing

Eli has published over 100 book chapters, articles, essays, and op-eds, spanning a range of topics from political theory to pop culture. Her first three books are scheduled for publication in 2025 and 2026. Below are a few available favorites.

Selected Book Chapters and Journal Articles


Transgender Medicine: Depathologization, Organizing, and Practice
Journal of the Student National Medical Association – 2014

I Knew I Was a Girl at 8: Transitioning and Teenage Activism
Critical Perspectives on Gender Identity, Enslow Press – 2016

Depathologizing Trans
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare, Arsenal Pulp Press – 2016 (link)

Trans Youth Activism on the Internet
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies – 2017

Rethinking Non/Binary
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Columbia University Press – 2019

(Trans)forming Education: How Transgender Youth Are Leading the School Justice Movement
Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in Schools, Routledge – 2018

On Rural Transgender Visibility
Representing Rural Women, Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield) – 2019

Rethinking Non/Binary
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Columbia University Press – 2019

Trans Students at Women’s Colleges
Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values, Routledge – 2019

(In)Equality and Beyond: Achieving Justice in Gender-Affirming Hormone Initiation
Co-authored with the 2021 Radcliffe Institute, Harvard Review of Psychiatry – 2022

Trans Youth Movements
Routledge Handbook for Literature and Social Justice, Routledge – 2023

The Ueno Park Riots: Transgender Resistance in 1948 Tokyo
A Radical Queer People’s History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion, ed. Zane McNeill and Blu Buchanan, PM Press – January 2025


Policy


Model Admissions Policy for Transgender Students at Women’s Colleges
Co-authored with Rose Wong – Trans Student Educational Resources – April 2015 (link)

Comprehensive Model Policy on Transgender Students for Four-Year Colleges and Universities
Trans Student Educational Resources – November 2016 (link)

Comprehensive Model Policy on Transgender Students for Two-Year Colleges and Universities
Trans Student Educational Resources – 2019