Transformative Cuntertransference

(He/Him), is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU) currently living in Treaty 7, Mohkinstsis, colonially known as Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. His research specializations include transgender mental health and sexuality, psychoanalysis, research-creation, queer visual culture, and cisgender psychology. Broadly, Wiggins’s work aims to address the continued pathologization of gender diversity and to advocate for trans-competent care. He is the director of the TransLab, an interdisciplinary research hub that supports the production and dissemination of qualitative, theoretical, and arts-based research in Transgender Studies. At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Gender & Social Justice Counselling, which applies intersectional feminist and social justice theory to a wide variety of helping professions. Dr. Wiggins’s recent scholarly outputs include contributions to anthologies like The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2024), Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care (2023), and Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities (2020); to journals including Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2022), The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (2021), and Transgender Studies Quarterly (2020); and to community-based publication projects and digital storytelling.