Survey Venting
Tuesday, 28 July 2020 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queer_scribblingOn the one hand, I would like to boost someone's survey, but on the other hand, I don't particularly feel comfortable boosting it without some disclaimers around question phrasing.
For the question that asks for clarification around gender (indicating cisgender, transgender, and a bunch of umbrella terms): I would separate Genderfluid and Genderflux because they are not synonymous or necessarily overlapping (I'm not aware of genderfluid being an umbrella term for genderflux), and I would have a Multigender option instead of specifying numbers (Bigender, Trigender) if these are really supposed to be umbrella terms.
When it comes to the questions about gender dysphoria and gender euphoria: I would honestly like to select yes and no because I do not experience a static and unchanging singular gender. Now, it might not be helpful for the host to have that option, and they might want to make another option in the multiple choice section or have an Other [textbox] choice. But still. While it’s nice that gender identity lists include Genderfluid (and some Multigender options) in surveys, it’s a bit unhelpful when questions are still phrased in such a way that it’s assumed I have one gender.
The intersex question? Based on the phrasing in the purpose section, I thought it would try to gauge what we've heard or encountered in online spaces - community perception, if you will. It didn't. The question:
To me, this does not seem to be the way to go about finding out how many people with the condition approach qualifying for but not always identifying as intersex. This phrasing limits the vast majority of, if not all, people with this condition to selecting ‘Dyadic’ when to my knowledge this is not how most intersex advocacy groups, which already acknowledge those with who opt-in to identifying as intersex, define intersex.
What is your gender? Options: Female, Male, Nonbinary, Prefer not to say, Other [textbox to fill in].I know some of my misgivings around using female/male when talking about gender are not considered common with general trans spaces. However, the purpose section of the survey specifically includes gathering info about at least one intersex related question. Why start off with using sex terminology in the place of gender terminology when that can be a complicated framework for intersex folks?
For the question that asks for clarification around gender (indicating cisgender, transgender, and a bunch of umbrella terms): I would separate Genderfluid and Genderflux because they are not synonymous or necessarily overlapping (I'm not aware of genderfluid being an umbrella term for genderflux), and I would have a Multigender option instead of specifying numbers (Bigender, Trigender) if these are really supposed to be umbrella terms.
When it comes to the questions about gender dysphoria and gender euphoria: I would honestly like to select yes and no because I do not experience a static and unchanging singular gender. Now, it might not be helpful for the host to have that option, and they might want to make another option in the multiple choice section or have an Other [textbox] choice. But still. While it’s nice that gender identity lists include Genderfluid (and some Multigender options) in surveys, it’s a bit unhelpful when questions are still phrased in such a way that it’s assumed I have one gender.
The intersex question? Based on the phrasing in the purpose section, I thought it would try to gauge what we've heard or encountered in online spaces - community perception, if you will. It didn't. The question:
Are you intersex (born with sex characteristics which don't meet the definitions of male or female), or dyadic (born with binary sex characteristics)?Please understand I'm staring into the camera a la The Office. Restricting intersex to those who know they had ambiguous genitalia at birth is 1) incorrect, and 2) likely to skew the answers. It is not unheard for folks to find out they were subjected to infant surgeries later in life, some folks might not be intersex because of anything to do with their genitalia at birth, and in the case of this condition, it is not possible to make a diagnosis until after puberty has started.
To me, this does not seem to be the way to go about finding out how many people with the condition approach qualifying for but not always identifying as intersex. This phrasing limits the vast majority of, if not all, people with this condition to selecting ‘Dyadic’ when to my knowledge this is not how most intersex advocacy groups, which already acknowledge those with who opt-in to identifying as intersex, define intersex.
