E. Taylor Silverman (they/them) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Taylor's research is at the intersection of trans studies, childhood studies, and medical anthropology. Their dissertation examines the everyday practices and politics of pediatric gender-affirming care in the contemporary United States. Based on long-term clinic- and community-based ethnographic fieldwork, their work centers the experiences and perspectives of youth, families, and clinicians negotiating these politicized issues in their daily lives.

Taylor’s research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Before graduate school, they received a BA from Brown University and worked in public health.