Here's a fawning interview of "Grace" from June of this year, accompanied by a photo array that shows being a "transwoman" nowadays means a guy wearing his hair shaggy, a Freddy Mercury mustache, a touch of lipstick and a spiky metallic necklace. Woo-hoo.

Note that he was hired as an English lit professor in 2013, and began "transitioning" (whatever the hell that means) in 2018. Also, the intro says Lavery has now obtained tenure, though it's not clear whether that happened before or after he started claiming to be trans. For opportunistic men like Lavery, I bet claiming a trans identity would be be a big plus in tenure decisions nowadays, coz men who say they are women are the new sacred caste especially in academia - and being trans and doing "trans studies" seems to be taken as a reasonable excuse for producing shoddy, self-serving drivel that pretends to be legitimate scholarship. As the case of Ragehell Rhys McKinnon being granted tenure at his college so well illustrates.

Why it was necessary for the publication to reprint the same photo three times is not clear. But since this was in an official UCal Berkeley publication, "Grace" must have provided and/or approved the photos.

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2020/transitioning-with-grace-lavery-coming-out-in-academia

Also, Lavery's life partner (spouse?) is a TIF who takes testosterone and calls herself Daniel Lavery:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/daniel-m-lavery-trans-memoir-interview-11582032767

On his website, Lavery says that he and his TIF partner have decided to cut off all contact with the partner's family. Presumably they're "toxic" and insufficiently "validating."

One of "Grace's" scintillating recent scholarly papers is "The King's Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech." Abstract:

“The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech” critically examines the discourses of trans feminism and free speech absolutism as they have converged in a number of public controversies in the wake of the 2016 election of Donald Trump. It argues that the crisis of democratic institutions precipitated by that election revealed the surprising susceptibility of the dominant strains of critical and queer theory to cooptation by the far right and exposed the inadequacy of institutionalized rhetorics of trans affirmation, which generally comprise defenses of indeterminacy or gender ambivalence—the very conditions many trans people contest. Drawing on the late work of Michel Foucault and the private writings of Ernst Kantorowicz, “The King’s Two Anuses” articulates a critique of the Lacanian account of subjective sexuation (in the work of Judith Butler, Joan Copjec, and Slavoj Žižek), which it holds especially influential and especially inadequate to the task of accounting for the diversity and assertiveness of trans accounts of personhood.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-abstract/30/3/118/148289/The-King-s-Two-Anuses-Trans-Feminism-and-Free

Other recently published papers of "Grace" are “Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique" published in the journal Critical Theory and “Egg Theory’s Early Style" published in Transgender Studies Quarterly.

It's all navel-gazing aboard a gravy train by an apparent conman.