She has worked extensively with Professor Pat Griffin and is also one of the pioneers of research into homophobia in sport. She currently works with organisations assessing their inclusiveness with an emphasis on issues of social justice and diversity. She has published widely on the experience of gender and sexual diversity in colleges and universities and in 2010 published a national study titled the State of Higher Education for LGBT People. She is also the author of The Lives of Transgender People, a book based on a survey of nearly 3,500 self-identified transgender individuals — one of the largest studies involving transgendered people to have been conducted in the United States.