Neither 'sex' nor 'gender' are naturally dichotomous categories! I hope,
actually I expect, critical geographers to create welcoming 'spaces' for
transgender, transsexual, gender variant and other gender-non-conforming
persons.
A friendly suggestion to all: while designing surveys, rather than
requiring people to choose from pre-selected identities, allow
respondents to fill in a blank field corresponding to 'sex' or 'gender'
(whichever category best suits the objectives of the survey (in this
case I would argue for 'gender')) and then to categorize the responses
manually. Alternatively the researcher may offer a third identity
category, 'transgender', or the
slightly-demeaning-but-still-better-than-nothing option of 'other'
(ideally with an accompanying blank filled where respondents can specify
their identity).
I assume that no offense was inteded by the creator of the survey. It
may seem like a minor oversight to many (perhaps most), but trans
populations are are literally rendered invsible in our data when we
neglect to even count them.
Tucker
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Sent: 29 October 2012 17:16
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Subject: Re: Survey live for the next two week!!
Thank you Dana for creating this survey.
I don't want to comment further aside from strongly encouraging people
to contribute their opinions by completing the survey.
With good wishes,
Sam
On 25/10/2012 11:54, Dana Abi Ghanem wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Ok, here is the link. The survey is not perfect and so I tried to make
> it as open ended as possible. If you would like to share your opinion,
> please click on the link below and answer the survey.
>
> Responses will be collected anonymously. Please note that I'll only be
> collecting responses until the 8th November.
>
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CritGeogForum
>
>
> Many thanks,
> Dana
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