DR. DANA BEYER
Dr. Dana Beyer is a retired eye surgeon who served for eight years as Executive Director of Gender Rights Maryland, the state’s trans political organization, which worked the Maryland gender identity bill to passage in 2014. She was the long-time chair of the national advisory board of Freedom to Work and wrote a weekly column for the Huffington Post from 2012-18. She was inducted into the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame in 2014, and served on the county’s Committee on Hate/Violence from 2015-18. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, she was awarded the 2020 Women in Medicine Award.
Dana has been an advocate on public health issues and was lead staffer passing the first county-wide ban of artificial trans fats in the U.S., thus facilitating the disappearance of trans fats from the national marketplace. She served nine years on the board of Keshet, the national Jewish LGBT organization, and is currently a director on the national board of A Wider Bridge, building relationships among the Jewish LGBT communities here and abroad.
In 2009, she helped organize and co-authored The Dallas Principles. She led the coalitions that passed the Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery County gender identity anti-discrimination laws, and successfully defended the Montgomery County law against the first national right-wing “bathroom bill” attack in 2008. She was a member of the workgroup at the Washington Psychiatric Society that wrote the Gender Dysphoria text for the DSM 5 (and now, as well, the ICD-11 of the World Health Organization), declassifying being transgender as a mental disorder.
Dana is a proud mother of two sons and grandmother of two very cute young granddaughters.
DR. DANA BEYER
Dr. Dana Beyer is a retired eye surgeon who served for eight years as Executive Director of Gender Rights Maryland, the state’s trans political organization, which worked the Maryland gender identity bill to passage in 2014. She was the long-time chair of the national advisory board of Freedom to Work and wrote a weekly column for the Huffington Post from 2012-18. She was inducted into the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame in 2014, and served on the county’s Committee on Hate/Violence from 2015-18. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, she was awarded the 2020 Women in Medicine Award.
Dana has been an advocate on public health issues and was lead staffer passing the first county-wide ban of artificial trans fats in the U.S., thus facilitating the disappearance of trans fats from the national marketplace. She served nine years on the board of Keshet, the national Jewish LGBT organization, and is currently a director on the national board of A Wider Bridge, building relationships among the Jewish LGBT communities here and abroad.
In 2009, she helped organize and co-authored The Dallas Principles. She led the coalitions that passed the Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery County gender identity anti-discrimination laws, and successfully defended the Montgomery County law against the first national right-wing “bathroom bill” attack in 2008. She was a member of the workgroup at the Washington Psychiatric Society that wrote the Gender Dysphoria text for the DSM 5 (and now, as well, the ICD-11 of the World Health Organization), declassifying being transgender as a mental disorder.
Dana is a proud mother of two sons and grandmother of two very cute young granddaughters.