# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aaron-devor
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:51:51.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aaron-devor"
name: "Aaron Devor"
slug: "aaron-devor"
description: "Aaron H. Devor is a Canadian sociologist and sexologist known for his work in transgender studies. Devor has taught at the University of Victoria since 1989 and is the former dean of graduate studies. He is the inaugural Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria, and the founder and subject matter expert of the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria. He is also the organizer of the Moving Trans History Forward conferences. Maclean's described Devor as \"an internationally respected expert on gender, sex and sexuality.\""
tagline: "Canadian sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Aaron_Devor_portrait_by_Blake_Little_(2020).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans man"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.59
  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           5.674838666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Aaron Devor"
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    title: "অ্যারন ডেভর"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aaron Devor"
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    title: "Девор, Аарон"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Devor"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Devor"
    title: "Aaron Devor"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump