Wren Ariel Gould is a psychologist and researcher who has written about transgender topics.
Background
Gould earned a bachelor’s degree from Bard College in 2009, a master’s degree from University of British Columbia in 2012, a master’s degree from San Francisco State University in 2014, and started a doctoral program at University of Toronto in 2021.
From 2012 to 2021, Wren worked as a clinical social worker and mental health provider in varied psychiatric environments across San Francisco and Philadelphia — including residential, forensic, and outpatient settings.
Selected publications by Gould
Gould WA (2025). Living Dead: Trans Cooperations with Mad Necropolitics and the Mad Trans Coalitions that Might Replace Them. Culture Med Psychiatry. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-025-09876-3
MacKinnon KR, Khan N, Newman KM, Gould WA, et al. (2025). Introducing Novel Methods to Identify Fraudulent Responses (Sampling With Sisyphus): Web-Based LGBTQ2S+ Mixed-Methods Study. J Med Internet Res. 2025. https://doi.org/10.2196/56789
Gould WA (2024). Coconstructing (Trans-) Capitalist Realism: Trans Activisms Collude in the Political Economy Structuring Anti-Trans Laws. Transgend Stud Q. 2024;11(1):117-136. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11100123
MacKinnon, K.R.; Jeyabalan, T.; Strang, J.F.; Delgado-Ron, J.A.; Lam, J.S.H.; Gould, W.A.; Cooper, A.; & Salway, T. (2024) Discontinuation of gender-affirming medical treatments: Prevalence and associated features in a non-probabilistic sample of gender-diverse youth. Journal of Adolescent Health. https://10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.05.01
Gould WA, MacKinnon KR, Lam JSH, Enxuga G (2024). Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians’ Experiences. Culture Med Psychiatry. 2024;48(2):285-310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-024-09845-y
Gould WA, Kinitz DJ, Shahidi FV, MacEachen E, et al.(2024). Improving LGBT Labor Market Outcomes Through Laws, Workplace Policies, and Support Programs: A Scoping Review. Sexuality Res Soc Policy. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00987-5
MacKinnon KR, Gould WA, Enxuga G, Kia H, et al. (2023). Exploring the Gender Care Experiences and Perspectives of Individuals Who Discontinued Their Transition or Detransitioned in Canada. PLoS One. 2023;18(10):e0287733. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287733
MacKinnon, K.R., Kia, H., Gould, W.A., Ross, L.E., Abramovich, A. & Lam, J. (2023) A typology of pathways to detransition: Considerations for care provider practice with transgender and gender diverse people who stop or reverse their gender transition. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000678
MacKinnon, K.R., Gould, W.A., Exposito-Campos, P. (2023) Detransition needs further understanding, not controversy: Key issues and suggestions for advancing gender care research and services. BMJ. 381 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-073584
Abramovich, A., Gould, W. A., Pang, N., de Oliveira, C., Iwajomo, T., Vigny-Pau, M., MacKinnon, K., Lam, J. S. H., & Kurdyak, P. (2023). Exploring mediators of mental health service use among transgender individuals in Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 68(12), 933-948, 07067437231171541. https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437231171541
MacKinnon, K.R., Gould, W.A., Ashley, F., Enxuga, G., Kia, H., Ross, L.E. (2022) (De)Transphobia: Examining the socio-politically driven gender minority stressors experienced by people who detransitioned. Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 1 (3-4). DOI: https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/1/3-4/3/
Gould WA (2014). Blond Bombshells and Fierce Revolutionaries: Race-based Normativities Within Transgender Communities [master’s thesis]. San Francisco State University; 2014.
References
daisyf1a873efbd8 (February 24, 2025). Interview With Wren Ariel Gould. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry https://culturemedicinepsychiatry.com/2025/02/24/interview-with-wren-ariel-gould/
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