http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/11/12/trans-families-needed-to-take-lgbt-families-survey/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:30:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/11/12/trans-families-needed-to-take-lgbt-families-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-62931 ginasf Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:52:05 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=9301#comment-62931 I took the survey and, while I greatly appreciate its intentions, it's very skewed towards same-sex parents and often confusing and difficult to take for heterosexual trans people. While they do offer questions specifically about gender identity, a lot of them are about sexual orientation with no chance to explain the differences in my experience from that of gay people. Also, I feel there are too many questions which lump LGBT together, as though we have some uniform experience and are a unified community. It's a good start, but needs some revision to take the complexity of our experiences into account. Without this, I feel as if my experience/identity is pretty much being marginalized. I took the survey and, while I greatly appreciate its intentions, it’s very skewed towards same-sex parents and often confusing and difficult to take for heterosexual trans people. While they do offer questions specifically about gender identity, a lot of them are about sexual orientation with no chance to explain the differences in my experience from that of gay people. Also, I feel there are too many questions which lump LGBT together, as though we have some uniform experience and are a unified community. It’s a good start, but needs some revision to take the complexity of our experiences into account. Without this, I feel as if my experience/identity is pretty much being marginalized.

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