Terri O’Connell was a racing champion as James Terrell Hayes before having sex-change surgery in 1992.

Margaret Stumpp, formerly Mark Stumpp, is chief investment officer with Quantitative Management Associates, an investment subsidiary of Prudential Financial in Newark, N.J.

Jennifer Finney Boylan, formerly James Boylan, is a fiction and nonfiction author and an English professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She wrote the best-selling memoir She’s Not There.

Edgardo Menvielle, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, works in a program for children with gender-variant behaviors and their families at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

James T. Sears is a professor of education at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and an author and scholar who has written widely about issues of sexual orientation and education. His books include, as editor, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies and Practices.

Jerimarie Liesegang directs the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition.

Brett-Genny Janiczek Beemyn directs the Stonewall Center: A Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Educational Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Holly Ryan is co-chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition with Gunner Scott.

Massachusetts state Rep. Carl M. Sciortino Jr., D-Medford, sponsored a bill to include gender identity in the state’s anti-discrimination and hate crime laws.