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Great idea to have such a survey. I couldn't find any questions regarding sex apart from the one about gender identity. That is, I'm trans but this doesn't show because I just selected 'female'. Likewise people that are intersex would not necessarily appear here. Or maybe I made a mistake somehow? If I was meant to fill out the field with the blank below, I probably wouldn't feel comfortable doing that because this would again make a distinction between 'the normal female' and an other, i.e. 'trans women'. I'm female/a woman. But I'm also trans. Both aren't necessarily connected.
A better solution would be imo to have an extra field asking if you identify as cis/trans/other. I get that this is kind of a tricky terrain though, just wanted to let you know/discuss it.
next time we'll probably do this yeah
I know you have a ton of work at the moment and I appreciate your effort a lot!
I just had a really bad day and felt bad to again not appear in a survey like this :'(
Yes, the gold standards on how to ask these questions are addressed in this fantastic paper created by the pride study. A quick summary of best practice is as follows:
Option to not disclose/answer for all above
Yes, sounds great this way :)
I guess depending on the audience (i.e. their knowledge on sex/gender) you could ask if someone identifies as cis, trans or otherwise in #2.
Not sure how to best include intersex people though, maybe someone else has an idea? Because they could potentially identify either as cis, trans or neither and in question #1 there also isn't room for this?
Ah jeez apologies yeah the first question is supposed to have intersex as an option along with other, was typing up quickly and forgot to add. It's a weird space because in medicine we usually ask about assigned sex at birth as well, so it can vary how is presented. Sometimes they'll explicitly call out 2s, hijra, etc if it's a big enough population or for like a LGBTQ clinic. I don't think we need to go into that much detail
I also had similar thoughts on this. I filled out the blank with "transitioning to male", but my preference would have been for a field that just says cis/trans/other. I imagine it is tricky to go through all the comments in the blank field as well and factor that into the demographics in the way the survey was intended.