Finding Community to Survive and Thrive as a Queer Trans Physicist

In 2014 the Executive Officer of the American Physical Society (APS), Kate Kirby, created an Ad-Hoc Committee on LGBT Issues (C-LGBT) charged with reporting on the obstacles to inclusion of LGBT physicists. These obstacles will be discussed alongside more recent work done by other groups that highlight the continued existence of these obstacles, from the presenter's perspective as a queer trans physicist who as a grad student was able to find and create community that has enabled her to survive and thrive as a physicist.