Published and forthcoming work. For a complete record, see my curriculum vitae.

Book

Lagos, Danya. Gender, Distributed: The Population Dynamics of the Transgender Tipping Point. Under contract, University of Chicago Press.

Journal Articles

Lagos, Danya, Rebecca Wolfe, and Daniel Schneider. Forthcoming. “Do Transgender and Non-Binary Workers in the U.S. Retail and Service Sectors Have Lower Quality Jobs Than Their Cisgender Counterparts?” Social Problems.

Pao, Christina, Christopher A. Julian, D’Lane R. Compton, Danya Lagos, and Lawrence Stacey. 2025. “Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure.” Sociological Science 12:277–293.

Lagos, Danya. 2022. “Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born Between 1935 and 2001.” American Journal of Sociology 128(1):94–143.

Honorable Mention, 2024 ASA Section on Sociology of Population Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population. Honorable Mention, 2024 ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award. Profiled by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Society Pages, and the University of Minnesota Press podcast.

Lagos, Danya, and D’Lane Compton. 2021. “Evaluating the Implementation of the Two-Step Gender Identity Question in the 2018 General Social Survey.” Demography 58(2):763–771.

Profiled by the Stanford Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

Lagos, Danya. 2019. “Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality.” American Sociological Review 84(5):801–827.

2020 ASA Section on Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award.

Lagos, Danya. 2018. “Looking at Population Health Beyond ‘Male’ and ‘Female’: Implications of Transgender Identity and Gender Nonconformity for Population Health.” Demography 55(6):2097–2117.

Honorable Mention, 2019 ASA Section on Sociology of Population Student Paper Award.

Schilt, Kristen, and Danya Lagos. 2017. “The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 43:425–443.

Book Reviews

Lagos, Danya. 2022. “Review of Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender, by stef shuster.” American Journal of Sociology 127(6):1939–1941.

Lagos, Danya. 2021. “Review of Gender Theory in Troubled Times, by Kathleen Lennon and Rachel Alsop.” Contemporary Sociology 50(5):426–428.

Lagos, Danya. 2020. “Review of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century, by Tey Meadow.” Social Forces 98(4):e32.

Other Publications

Lagos, Danya. 2020. “Health Determinants.” Pp. 369–372 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Lagos, Danya. 2019. “Do Transgender Women and Men Have Worse Health Outcomes if Their Voices Are Perceived as Inconsistent With Their Gender Identity?” PRC Research Brief 4(9).