This survey has been approved and has full ethics approval from a recognised science facility. Your participation is entirely voluntary.
Susan's is always willing to host ethically approved science surveys. People wishing to post such surveys should contact either Susan or I in the first instance.
My research project has been approved by the University of Canberra ethics board (HREC 14-253: Approved).
Additionally, I would be very happy to share the results of the project with ANZPATH. The results will be available sometime towards the end of this year (November - December 2015).
The link to the survey can be found below
http://canberrahealth.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bdsxSOV6ilqSSeV
Thank you very much for your time and if you have any further questions please let me know.
Kate
Done and done...
Done :)
Finè
although what was the email address again?
I wouldn't mind finding out the results of the survey :)
Finito! Will be interested to see the results.
Finished! :) I too wanna know results! :)
Complete :). Just curious, are we considered a representative sample (of trans preople)? Or do we not care about having a "representative" sample in transgender research and just hope for a big enough sample size to do decent statistics?
Quote from: darkblade on January 29, 2015, 05:21:20 AM
Complete :). Just curious, are we considered a representative sample (of trans preople)? Or do we not care about having a "representative" sample in transgender research and just hope for a big enough sample size to do decent statistics?
Good question and one we have thought about.
Most people trying to do surveys have limited access to the community and too often the access is by 'word of mouth to like feeling groups. A classic I have had looked at the value of dealing with therapists, unfortunately it was got hold of by a group that hated therapists and delivered one point of view, and second survey was captured by a group who had a positive experience, so both surveys were meaningless.
By offering access to very large groups we hope to overcome those issues, but of course it is still biased. Researchers have access to people who have the internet, who are motivated and who are willing to fill in surveys. I remember a talk by a geneticist who said it had taken years to get samples from 1000 people, I said I could give access to 15,000, they just about cried.
Research is important, politicians listen to scientists., even if they personally disagree, they have to listen in the end. As a young girl being transgender was almost unknown and facilities were none existent. I will not let trans*kids go through my life, I want my community to be cared for, to have facilities and to have rights. I will in any way I can break down the barriers so that we are treated like normal people, I am a normal woman. The children who identify as trans* will have normal healthy lives. If Susan and I can facilitate that we shall. But we will not compromise the safety of our community in any way.
Done ! I trust that you will inform us when the survey is complete and how to access it. :) Patty
Quote from: Cindy on January 29, 2015, 05:59:49 AM
Good question and one we have thought about.
Most people trying to do surveys have limited access to the community and too often the access is by 'word of mouth to like feeling groups. A classic I have had looked at the value of dealing with therapists, unfortunately it was got hold of by a group that hated therapists and delivered one point of view, and second survey was captured by a group who had a positive experience, so both surveys were meaningless.
By offering access to very large groups we hope to overcome those issues, but of course it is still biased. Researchers have access to people who have the internet, who are motivated and who are willing to fill in surveys. I remember a talk by a geneticist who said it had taken years to get samples from 1000 people, I said I could give access to 15,000, they just about cried.
Research is important, politicians listen to scientists., even if they personally disagree, they have to listen in the end. As a young girl being transgender was almost unknown and facilities were none existent. I will not let trans*kids go through my life, I want my community to be cared for, to have facilities and to have rights. I will in any way I can break down the barriers so that we are treated like normal people, I am a normal woman. The children who identify as trans* will have normal healthy lives. If Susan and I can facilitate that we shall. But we will not compromise the safety of our community in any way.
I understand that getting a "representative sample" is in itself difficult to do if we're trying to look at the general population (lots of studies use college students, which don't really "represent" many people), let alone the trans population. I agree that the larger the sample, the better the results even though they'll probably never be entirely accurate, I was just wondering how data was collected for this sort of stuff. Of course, some research is better than no research (given we are aware of the biases).
I wonder whether it would be possible to build a database of trans-identified people where people can choose to opt-in, say when they start gender therapy or something, to take part in research whether surveys or otherwise. That would help get more participants but then I don't know if having something like that would make the research sample more representative. I have lots of respect for what you do and how hard you try to make things easier for other people :) you definitely make the world a better place.
I appreciate your efforts to make the world a better place, you are awesome! I look forward to seeing the results!
Quote from: darkblade on January 29, 2015, 05:21:20 AM
Complete :). Just curious, are we considered a representative sample (of trans preople)? Or do we not care about having a "representative" sample in transgender research and just hope for a big enough sample size to do decent statistics?
I think this is a really tricky one because I don't think we even have a good idea of what a representative sample would look like in our case, or do we? We don't know what percentage of the population identified as trans* in the first place. We don't know how the trans* community is composed. Susan's is probably one of the best places to start, but I have a suspicion that as so often PoC may be underrepresented, for example.
Fin
Done, And would like to know the final results.
Done. Would like to know the results.
And thanks Cindy for everything that you do!
Done.
Done & may I just say Wow! Those questions were insightful & thought provoking, instead of rushing through as I'm prone to do I went through several mugs of coffee before I'd finished it.
I think most people (trans or not) would benefit from answering many of those questions, I may pinch this for the lgbt group I help to run.
Done! Thanks, Cindy.
Joelene
Done.
Moi aussi!
Finis!
I'd like to see the results also.
:)
Et finis!
Done ;D
Did it.
Are there going to be 15,000 responses to this thread? (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthefiringline.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Fwink.gif&hash=fd49c1687b59c0ea097a7b4f1ed562a996fdaf5c)
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Done and thank you for your work Cindy.
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Done :D
Done.
Like many here, I respect and admire all the work you have done for us and Susan's. I think there is quite a bit more we never hear of.
Thanks!
-Sandy
Quote from: Sandy on January 30, 2015, 07:05:43 AM
Done.
Like many here, I respect and admire all the work you have done for us and Susan's. I think there is quite a bit more we never hear of.
Thanks!
-Sandy
Maybe :laugh:
Sue deserves all the credit, not I.
For one of the largest private NFP thingys run on fresh air and an oily rag in the world, there is a very low turn over in staff, particularly at the senior level. Says everything really.
I'm just an embarrassment ::) to all concerned.
You got my vote in it. It went In a direction I was not expecting and stirred up bits of my past I'd like to forget but I'm glad I could help either way.
Done.
I kind of surprised myself with some of the answers. Can you say "touchy"? ;)
Looking forward to the results...
When I think of how different my answers would have been pre-transition, well it's pretty amazing and encouraging. Was good for me to see that.
Done!
Quote from: BunnyBee on January 30, 2015, 11:00:41 AM
When I think of how different my answers would have been pre-transition, well it's pretty amazing and encouraging. Was good for me to see that.
Yes, I told Kate after I did the survey that she should have had the questions pre and post.
Done.
I just finished the survey. I had some problems with it, though.
1. I notice it says I need to have JavaScript to take the survey, but it seems to be accepting my answers anyway. (JavaScript makes my browser run about 10x slower.) When I turned JavaScript on, the survey stopped accepting my answers.
2. A lot of the questions used "gender identity" -- something I think of as internal and not directly visible -- when I would have expected "gender presentation" (e.g., whether my "gender identity" would prevent my getting a job) or "physical sex." Also, the fact that I don't feel like I have a "gender identity" as such made it hard to answer questions involving the term. I tried to reinterpret "gender identity" as "ways in which aspects of my personality mesh with cultural expectations of one gender or the other." It's too bad the questions didn't have a "not applicable" answer.
3. A lot of the questions seemed to be rewordings of previous questions; in some cases, questions from one page were repeated on the next.
Very respectful survey, perfect language (for me). Thank you for doing research. It's super important.