Henry S. Rubin (born 1966) is an American sociologist known for work on transsexualism.
[1] Rubin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 from University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree and Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1996.
Following a one-year position as programs coordinator at Colleges of the Fenway in 2005, Rubin took a position as an instructor at Quincy College in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 2007.
Rubin's work explores the political tensions that emerge from differing worldviews and identities within the LGBT community.
[3] He has also explored how the "logic of treatment" is different for trans men and trans women, outlining the now-outdated use of chemical castration on female-to-male people.