Op-ed: What You Should Know About the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/08/19/op-ed-what-you-should-know-about-2015-us-trans-survey

The Advocate/BY Mara Keisling August 19 2015 8:00 AM ET 

"In 2008-2009, we asked trans and gender-nonconforming people to fill out the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and let us know about their experiences. My organization, the National Center for Transgender Equality (along with the National LGBTQ Task Force) hoped we might get 1,500 or so people to help us out. We also imagined the survey would be useful somehow. By the time we issued the report "Injustice at Every Turn" in 2011, we knew that over 6,400 people had participated and we would soon see that the survey was incredibly useful way beyond our expectations. In fact, it was an absolute game changer for trans people — at least for our public education and policy change efforts. It has mattered so much, and all due to the 6,400 people who stepped up, joined in, and took the survey."

The survey is out today, let's all get on board to help ourselves and the world with greater understanding.

Well, I completed it.

It wasn't bad but it did take around 45 minutes.

GET YOUR VOICE OUT!

Jen

Quote from: JLT1 on August 19, 2015, 12:10:07 PM
Well, I completed it.

It wasn't bad but it did take around 45 minutes.

GET YOUR VOICE OUT!

Jen

ditto

Yes, it was long!  But, worth it, IMHO.

Very unhappy. After about an hour I was only halfway through, and the server stopped responding so I lost everything.

that's a bummer

Just finished. Started at 11:15 my time. I was trying to multi-task and get work done. Wow, that was a mistake. I should have just plowed through.

Glad to have done it.

Joanna

Quote from: suzifrommd on August 19, 2015, 03:48:03 PM
Very unhappy. After about an hour I was only halfway through, and the server stopped responding so I lost everything.

Same here, It timed out.

Joelene

I only got about a third through. I'll try again tomorrow on a faster connection. The survey is probably being thrashed given that it was just announced. Relax! We have a month.

I took the survey.    I kept getting timed out, but I stuck with it and completed it.  I just hope that it really does help.  Maybe the government will actually look at the results.

I just finished it.

I tried last night, around 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time, but it was very, very slow and kept timing out.  Also, it seemed to think I'd clicked different answers from the ones I clicked on.  (I wish there was a way to see what responses their server thinks you've selected.)  My guess is that that was prime time for trans people filling it out (especially west of us) and the server was overloaded.

I tried again at 5:00 this morning and it went a lot faster.

Also, I had trouble with some of the answers because I'm in the middle (well, more like beginning) of my transition, and it seems to assume everyone is either pre- or post-transition (if they're transitioning.)

And I realize that because gender is, for me, a weirdness that society imposes on me and not something inside of me, it's hard for me to classify the ways I don't fit in as "related to being trans" and "not related to being trans."  I've known as far back as I can remember that I wasn't the way I was supposed to be (because every person I met made a point of telling me), but I didn't try to classify any of it as gender-related until recently.

  I took it and finished last night ,spent 2 hours ,from midnight to 2 AM eastern time.

I filled it out too.  Toward the end it started to take longer and longer to get to the next question.  It took about an hour for me to fill it all out.

-Sandy

A girlfriend and I traveled to Portland for a big celebration and opportunity to do the survey at the Q Center.  Several organizations were represented from Basic Rights Oregon to Planned Parenthood.  Great community building event!

I liked how it replied by saying I've noticed you answered a certain question one way can you answer these questions in response to that answer. It seemed quite nice, of course it just could mean I need a life.

Silly thing slowed down so much it took me almost 5 hours to complete, but I persevered!

I guess I was pretty lucky as it only took me about 45 minutes.
I'll be very interested to see the results!

i had decided to take a look at it and see if i became motivated enough to take the survey though i said i'd stay away from anything involving these things, and its unavailable due to the high number of people. i'll try again and see if i'm motivated on the 21 of september

  Forget the 21st of September, you'll be here! I finally completed the survey. Zipped through it this time.

Joelene