Jake Pyne
Assistant Professor
Email: jpyne@yorku.ca
Degrees
PhD, McMaster UniversityMSW, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
BSW, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
Research Interests
- SSHRC Impact Talent Award - 2019
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2018
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2018
- Trudeau Scholarship - 2014
- Vanier Doctoral Award - 2014
- CIHR Doctoral Award - 2014
- Harry Lyman Hooker Senior Fellowship - 2013
- Gender Identity Research and Education Society (UK) Research Prize (with co-authors) - 2020
Rinaldi, J., Pendleton-Jimenez, K., Pyne, J. & Friedman, M. (2023). Fragments on fatness:
Moments from a digital storytelling archive on trans experiences of weight stigma. In A. Taylor, K. Ioannoni, R.A. Bahra, C. Evans, A. Scrivner & M. Friedman (Eds.), Fat studies in Canada: (Re)mapping the field (pp.154-162). Toronto: Inanna Publications.
Pyne, J. (2022). Unfashionable contributions: Trans women and the bad vibes of antinormativity. In E. Coburn & A. Schwartz (Eds.), Thirty years of feminist research: Reflections on thirty years of feminist research, notes for the next thirty. (pp. 38-40). Toronto: Centre for Feminist Research, York University.
Pyne, J. (2021). Life itself: Trans youth and the freedom they are owed. In L. Herriot & K. Fry (Eds.) Trans youth stories : An intergenerational dialogue after the “trans tipping point” (pp. 64-82). Toronto : Canadian Scholars Press.
Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Winters, K., Feder, S., Holmes, C., Tosh, J., Sinnott, M., Jamieson, A. & Pickett, S. (2019). A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children. In J. Watson & J. Veale (Eds.) Today’s transgender youth: Health, well-being, and opportunities for resilience (pp. 98-110). Routledge.
Winters, K., Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Feder, S., Jamieson, A., Holmes, C., Sinnott, M., Pickett, S. & Tosh, J. (2019). Learning to listen to trans and gender diverse children: A response to Zucker (2018) and Steensma and Cohen-Kettenis (2018). In J. Watson & J. Veale (Eds.) Today’s transgender youth: Health, well-being, and opportunities for resilience (pp. 132-136). Routledge.
Pyne, J., Bauer, G., Hammond, R. & Travers, R. (2017). Taking the pulse, making trans people count : Quantitative method as social justice strategy in the Trans PULSE project. In H. Parada & S. Wehbi (Eds.). Re-imagining anti-oppressive social work research (pp.3-15). Canadian Scholars Press.
Pyne, J. (2016). Queer and trans collisions in the classroom : A call to throw open theoretical doors in social work education. In S. Hillock & N. Mule (Eds.). Queering social work education (pp.54-72). University of British Columbia Press.
Pyne, J. (2015). Transfeminist theory and action: Trans women and the contested terrain of women’s services. In B. O’Neill, T. Swan & N. Mule (Eds.). LGBTQ People and Social Work: Intersectional Perspectives (pp.129-149). Toronto : Canadian Scholars Press.
Pyne, J. (2014). Health and wellbeing among gender independent children: A critical review of the literature. In E. Meyer & A. Pullen Sansfaçon (Eds.) Supporting transgender and gender creative youth: Schools, families, and communities in action (pp. 26-40). Peter
Lang: New York.
Scanlon, K., Pyne, J., Araya, D., Butler, A., Manalo, J., Ortigoza, E., Penate, J., Persad., Y. & Tokawa, K. (2014). Trans Access Project: Running the gauntlet. In D. Irving & R. Raj (Eds.) Trans activism in Canada: A reader (p.115-123). Canadian Scholars Press.
Pyne, J. (2013). Complicating the truth of gender : Gender literacy and the possible worlds of trans parenting. In F. Green & M. Friedman (Eds.) Chasing rainbows: Exploring gender fluid parenting practices (pp. 127-144). Toronto : New Demeter Press.
Pyne, J. (2021). Autistic disruptions, trans temporalities: A narrative “trap door” in time. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(2), 343-361.
Pyne, J. (2020). "Building a person": Legal and clinical personhood for autistic and trans children in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), 341-365.
Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Winters, K., Feder, S., Holmes, C., Tosh, J., Sinnott, M., Jamieson, A. & Pickett, S. (2018). A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children. International Journal of Transgenderism, 19(2), 212-224.
Winters, K., Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Feder, S., Jamieson, A., Holmes, C., Sinnott, M., Pickett, S. & Tosh, J. (2018). Learning to listen to trans and gender diverse children: A response to Zucker (2018) and Steensma and Cohen-Kettenis (2018). International Journal of Transgenderism 19(2), 246-250.
Temple-Newhook, J., Winters, K., Pyne, J., Jamieson, A., Holmes, C., Feder, S., Pickett, S. & Sinnott, M. (2018). Teach your parents and providers well: A call for re-focus on the health of trans and gender-diverse children. Canadian Family Physician, 64(1), 332-225
Moffatt, K., Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Pyne, J., Parada, H., Panitch, M., Hunter-Young, N. (2018). Worry about professional education: Emotions in the context of neoliberal change in postsecondary education. Emotion, Space and Society, 26, 9-15.
Pyne, J. (2017). Arresting Ashley X: Trans youth, puberty blockers and the question of whether time is on your side. Somatechics, 7(1), 95-123
Pyne, J. (2016). Parenting is not a job…it’s a relationship: Recognition and relational knowledge among parents of gender non-conforming children. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 27(1), 21-48.
Bauer, G., Scheim, A., Pyne, J., Travers, R., Hammond, R. (2015). Intervenable factors associated with suicide risk in transgender persons: A respondent-driven sampling study in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health, 15(525), 1-15.
Pyne, J., Bauer, G. & Bradley, K. (2015). Transphobia and other stressors impacting trans parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 11(2), 107-126.
Pyne, J. (2014). Gender Independent Kids: A paradigm shift in approaches to gender non-conforming children. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 23(1), 1-8.
Pyne, J. (2014). The governance of gender non-conforming children: A dangerous enclosure. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 11, 79-96.
Scheim, A., Jackson, R., James, E., Dopler, S., Pyne, J. & Bauer, G. (2013). Barriers to wellbeing for Aboriginal gender diverse people: Results from the Trans PULSE project in Ontario, Canada. Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 6(4), 108-120.
Travers, R., Pyne, J., Bauer, G., Munro, L., Giambrone, B.,Hammond, R. & Scanlon, K. (2013). Community control in CPBR: Lessons learned and questions asked from the Trans PULSE Project. Action Research, 11(4), 403-422.
Bauer, G., Pyne, J., Francino, M. & Hammond, R. (2013). Suicidality among trans people in Ontario: Implications for social work and social justice. Service Social, 59(1), 35-62.
Saewyc, E., Pyne, J., Frohard-Dourlent, H., Travers, R., & Veale, J., (2017). Being Safe, Being Me in Ontario: Regional Results of the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey. Vancouver, BC: Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia.
Scheim, A., Bauer, G., Pyne, J. (2014). Avoidance of public spaces by trans Ontarians: The impact of transphobia on daily life. Trans PULSE E-Bulletin. Vol 24(1).
Travers, R., Bauer, G., Pyne, J., Bradley, K., Gale, L., Papadimitriou, M. (2012). Impacts of strong parental support for trans youth: A report prepared for Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and Delisle Youth Services. Trans PULSE.
Pyne, J. (2012). Supporting gender independent children : A Rainbow Health Ontario fact sheet. Rainbow Health Ontario.
Pyne, J. (2012). Transforming family : The struggles, strategies and strengths of trans parents. Sherbourne Health Centre.
Bauer, G., Nussbaum, N., Travers, R., Munro, L., Pyne, J. & Redman, N. (2011). We’ve got work to do: Workplace discrimination and employment challenges for trans people in Ontario. Trans PULSE E-Bulletin. Vol 2(1).
Denomme-Welch, S., Pyne, J., Scanlon, K. (2008). Invisible men: FTMs and homelessness in Toronto. Toronto: Wellesley Institute.
Bauer, G., Devor, A., heinz, m., Marshall, Z., Pullen Sansfaçon, A., Pyne, J, for the CPATH Research Committee. (2019). CPATH Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Transgender People & Communities. Canada: Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Pyne, J. (2019, April 29). For trans people in Ontario, the sex-ed debate feels like it’s about something else. The Globe and Mail.
Pyne, J. (2016, November 22). Gender ‘Pronoun Wars’ are about Freedom for sure, but not Free Speech. NOW Magazine.
Pyne, J. (2015, December 17). Discredited treatment of trans kids at CAMH shouldn’t shock us. Toronto Star.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2024 | AP/SOWK4020 3.0 | O | Issues in the Study of the Welfare State | SEMR |
| Winter 2024 | GS/SOWK5011 3.0 | M | Intro to SOWK Theor&Critic Prac Skils P2 | SEMR |
Degrees
PhD, McMaster UniversityMSW, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
BSW, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
Research Interests
Awards
- SSHRC Impact Talent Award - 2019
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2018
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2018
- Trudeau Scholarship - 2014
- Vanier Doctoral Award - 2014
- CIHR Doctoral Award - 2014
- Harry Lyman Hooker Senior Fellowship - 2013
- Gender Identity Research and Education Society (UK) Research Prize (with co-authors) - 2020
All Publications
Rinaldi, J., Pendleton-Jimenez, K., Pyne, J. & Friedman, M. (2023). Fragments on fatness:
Moments from a digital storytelling archive on trans experiences of weight stigma. In A. Taylor, K. Ioannoni, R.A. Bahra, C. Evans, A. Scrivner & M. Friedman (Eds.), Fat studies in Canada: (Re)mapping the field (pp.154-162). Toronto: Inanna Publications.
Pyne, J. (2022). Unfashionable contributions: Trans women and the bad vibes of antinormativity. In E. Coburn & A. Schwartz (Eds.), Thirty years of feminist research: Reflections on thirty years of feminist research, notes for the next thirty. (pp. 38-40). Toronto: Centre for Feminist Research, York University.
Pyne, J. (2021). Life itself: Trans youth and the freedom they are owed. In L. Herriot & K. Fry (Eds.) Trans youth stories : An intergenerational dialogue after the “trans tipping point” (pp. 64-82). Toronto : Canadian Scholars Press.
Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Winters, K., Feder, S., Holmes, C., Tosh, J., Sinnott, M., Jamieson, A. & Pickett, S. (2019). A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children. In J. Watson & J. Veale (Eds.) Today’s transgender youth: Health, well-being, and opportunities for resilience (pp. 98-110). Routledge.
Winters, K., Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Feder, S., Jamieson, A., Holmes, C., Sinnott, M., Pickett, S. & Tosh, J. (2019). Learning to listen to trans and gender diverse children: A response to Zucker (2018) and Steensma and Cohen-Kettenis (2018). In J. Watson & J. Veale (Eds.) Today’s transgender youth: Health, well-being, and opportunities for resilience (pp. 132-136). Routledge.
Pyne, J., Bauer, G., Hammond, R. & Travers, R. (2017). Taking the pulse, making trans people count : Quantitative method as social justice strategy in the Trans PULSE project. In H. Parada & S. Wehbi (Eds.). Re-imagining anti-oppressive social work research (pp.3-15). Canadian Scholars Press.
Pyne, J. (2016). Queer and trans collisions in the classroom : A call to throw open theoretical doors in social work education. In S. Hillock & N. Mule (Eds.). Queering social work education (pp.54-72). University of British Columbia Press.
Pyne, J. (2015). Transfeminist theory and action: Trans women and the contested terrain of women’s services. In B. O’Neill, T. Swan & N. Mule (Eds.). LGBTQ People and Social Work: Intersectional Perspectives (pp.129-149). Toronto : Canadian Scholars Press.
Pyne, J. (2014). Health and wellbeing among gender independent children: A critical review of the literature. In E. Meyer & A. Pullen Sansfaçon (Eds.) Supporting transgender and gender creative youth: Schools, families, and communities in action (pp. 26-40). Peter
Lang: New York.
Scanlon, K., Pyne, J., Araya, D., Butler, A., Manalo, J., Ortigoza, E., Penate, J., Persad., Y. & Tokawa, K. (2014). Trans Access Project: Running the gauntlet. In D. Irving & R. Raj (Eds.) Trans activism in Canada: A reader (p.115-123). Canadian Scholars Press.
Pyne, J. (2013). Complicating the truth of gender : Gender literacy and the possible worlds of trans parenting. In F. Green & M. Friedman (Eds.) Chasing rainbows: Exploring gender fluid parenting practices (pp. 127-144). Toronto : New Demeter Press.
Pyne, J. (2021). Autistic disruptions, trans temporalities: A narrative “trap door” in time. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(2), 343-361.
Pyne, J. (2020). "Building a person": Legal and clinical personhood for autistic and trans children in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), 341-365.
Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Winters, K., Feder, S., Holmes, C., Tosh, J., Sinnott, M., Jamieson, A. & Pickett, S. (2018). A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children. International Journal of Transgenderism, 19(2), 212-224.
Winters, K., Temple-Newhook, J., Pyne, J., Feder, S., Jamieson, A., Holmes, C., Sinnott, M., Pickett, S. & Tosh, J. (2018). Learning to listen to trans and gender diverse children: A response to Zucker (2018) and Steensma and Cohen-Kettenis (2018). International Journal of Transgenderism 19(2), 246-250.
Temple-Newhook, J., Winters, K., Pyne, J., Jamieson, A., Holmes, C., Feder, S., Pickett, S. & Sinnott, M. (2018). Teach your parents and providers well: A call for re-focus on the health of trans and gender-diverse children. Canadian Family Physician, 64(1), 332-225
Moffatt, K., Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Pyne, J., Parada, H., Panitch, M., Hunter-Young, N. (2018). Worry about professional education: Emotions in the context of neoliberal change in postsecondary education. Emotion, Space and Society, 26, 9-15.
Pyne, J. (2017). Arresting Ashley X: Trans youth, puberty blockers and the question of whether time is on your side. Somatechics, 7(1), 95-123
Pyne, J. (2016). Parenting is not a job…it’s a relationship: Recognition and relational knowledge among parents of gender non-conforming children. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 27(1), 21-48.
Bauer, G., Scheim, A., Pyne, J., Travers, R., Hammond, R. (2015). Intervenable factors associated with suicide risk in transgender persons: A respondent-driven sampling study in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health, 15(525), 1-15.
Pyne, J., Bauer, G. & Bradley, K. (2015). Transphobia and other stressors impacting trans parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 11(2), 107-126.
Pyne, J. (2014). Gender Independent Kids: A paradigm shift in approaches to gender non-conforming children. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 23(1), 1-8.
Pyne, J. (2014). The governance of gender non-conforming children: A dangerous enclosure. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 11, 79-96.
Scheim, A., Jackson, R., James, E., Dopler, S., Pyne, J. & Bauer, G. (2013). Barriers to wellbeing for Aboriginal gender diverse people: Results from the Trans PULSE project in Ontario, Canada. Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 6(4), 108-120.
Travers, R., Pyne, J., Bauer, G., Munro, L., Giambrone, B.,Hammond, R. & Scanlon, K. (2013). Community control in CPBR: Lessons learned and questions asked from the Trans PULSE Project. Action Research, 11(4), 403-422.
Bauer, G., Pyne, J., Francino, M. & Hammond, R. (2013). Suicidality among trans people in Ontario: Implications for social work and social justice. Service Social, 59(1), 35-62.
Saewyc, E., Pyne, J., Frohard-Dourlent, H., Travers, R., & Veale, J., (2017). Being Safe, Being Me in Ontario: Regional Results of the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey. Vancouver, BC: Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia.
Scheim, A., Bauer, G., Pyne, J. (2014). Avoidance of public spaces by trans Ontarians: The impact of transphobia on daily life. Trans PULSE E-Bulletin. Vol 24(1).
Travers, R., Bauer, G., Pyne, J., Bradley, K., Gale, L., Papadimitriou, M. (2012). Impacts of strong parental support for trans youth: A report prepared for Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and Delisle Youth Services. Trans PULSE.
Pyne, J. (2012). Supporting gender independent children : A Rainbow Health Ontario fact sheet. Rainbow Health Ontario.
Pyne, J. (2012). Transforming family : The struggles, strategies and strengths of trans parents. Sherbourne Health Centre.
Bauer, G., Nussbaum, N., Travers, R., Munro, L., Pyne, J. & Redman, N. (2011). We’ve got work to do: Workplace discrimination and employment challenges for trans people in Ontario. Trans PULSE E-Bulletin. Vol 2(1).
Denomme-Welch, S., Pyne, J., Scanlon, K. (2008). Invisible men: FTMs and homelessness in Toronto. Toronto: Wellesley Institute.
Bauer, G., Devor, A., heinz, m., Marshall, Z., Pullen Sansfaçon, A., Pyne, J, for the CPATH Research Committee. (2019). CPATH Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Transgender People & Communities. Canada: Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Pyne, J. (2019, April 29). For trans people in Ontario, the sex-ed debate feels like it’s about something else. The Globe and Mail.
Pyne, J. (2016, November 22). Gender ‘Pronoun Wars’ are about Freedom for sure, but not Free Speech. NOW Magazine.
Pyne, J. (2015, December 17). Discredited treatment of trans kids at CAMH shouldn’t shock us. Toronto Star.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2024 | AP/SOWK4020 3.0 | O | Issues in the Study of the Welfare State | SEMR |
| Winter 2024 | GS/SOWK5011 3.0 | M | Intro to SOWK Theor&Critic Prac Skils P2 | SEMR |
