Lori Meeks is associate professor of religion and East Asian language and cultures at the University of Southern California. She is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Buddhism section.

Michael D. Palm Center (formerly Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military) at University of California, Santa Barbara is a research institute that works to educate and provide resources concerning modern issues, such as gender and sexuality.

The American Civil Liberties Union’s Web site includes background material on transgender court cases.

Read the May 2007 study from the Michael D. Palm Center at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Read an April 24, 2012 Huffington Post article about the anti-discrimination law ruling that protects transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace.

Peter C. Hill is a psychology professor at the Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. He contributed to the 2005 edition of The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism. He specializes in the psychology of religion and has done research on individuals’ right to choose whether to forgive, restorative justice and the role of apology.

J. Stanley Mattson is founder and president of the C.S. Lewis Foundation in Redlands, Calif.

The Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA) at the University of San Francisco fosters the interdisciplinary analysis of the social, economic, political, and cultural realities of Latin Americans and of Latinos in the United States. Contact director, Karina Hodoyan.

Lois Ann Lorentzen is professor of social ethics in the theology and religious studies department at the University of San Francisco (USF) and co-director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA).