By John Mack Freeman
The U.S. Trans Survey will continue to accept responses until September 21, 2015. Via Advocate.com:
“Trans lives are complex,” Sandy James, project manager for the survey, said in a recent phone interview. “The U.S. Trans Survey will help us to change the policies and perceptions that govern trans lives in the country by documenting how we live our lives on a day-to-day basis.” The survey, he said, promises to provide “more nuanced understandings of trans people so that we can broaden and strengthen the narratives about trans people.”
This year’s survey expands the pioneering work of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, the largest-ever documentation of the bias face by trans Americans. That study was jointly administered by the National LGBTQ Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality in 2008-2009 and led to a groundbreaking, much-cited 2011 report called“Injustice at Every Turn” that revolutionized public perceptions of trans people.
The survey criteria are as follows:
This survey is for people who:
(1) Are transgender, trans, genderqueer, or non-binary
(2) Are 18 years or older
(3) Currently live in the U.S., U.S. territories, or on a U.S. military base abroad
If you do not meet the above criteria, please do not take the survey.
