“We Are Not Expected”

Despite slowly expanding literature on trans* students in higher education, there is virtually nothing examining the lived experiences, identity processes, and needs of trans* educators in higher education and student affairs. This awareness led to the inaugural T* Circle dialogue in March 2014 among nine diverse trans* educators, moderated by a cisgender facilitator, to make visible and begin to fill this gap. The manuscript describes the trans*formative participatory process of designing and implementing this unique program, key themes from the dialogue and postdialogue reflections, and an expressed intention to trans*form higher education through future collaborations and projects.