Janik Bastien-Charlebois is a Canadian sociologist, professor, and advocate for intersex rights.^[1] She teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and her areas of study include cultural democracy, testimony, epistemology, homophobia and feminism.^[1][2][3]

In an interview with the Montreal Gazette, and with Être, Bastien-Charlebois describes the medical "normalization" of her body at age 17 as a process of dispossession.^[4][5][6] Her activism began slowly following a meeting with Curtis Hinkle, the founder of Organisation Intersex International, in Montreal in 2005.^[4] She has participated in the second and third International Intersex Forums.^[2]

Janik Bastien-Charlebois is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she works in research groups on "Testimonial Cultures", homophobia,^[7] and the Institute for Research on Feminist Studies. During 2014 and 2015, Bastien-Charlebois was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien), Humboldt University of Berlin.^[3]

Her book, La virilité en jeu (Manhood at stake), examines the inevitability of boys' homophobic behaviors through interviews with adolescent boys. Bastien-Charlebois disputes arguments focused on human nature and male identity formation, suggesting instead that heterosexuality is socially constructed.^[8]

In recent work, Bastien-Charlebois critiques the medical treatment of intersex voices.^[2][9]

Bastien-Charlebois speaks internationally,^[2] and has been interviewed by the Montreal Gazette,^[4] Le Nouvelliste,^[10] Le Devoir^[6] and Être.^[5]

• Intersex human rights