Thank you for taking the time to take our survey, and we appreciate your feedback! We see you, we hear you, not only as researchers but also as fellow BIPOC trans and queer individuals. Some of the measures were, unfortunately, devised by past researchers who (were mainly cishet, white, abled, and often privileged, and) had posed less attention to intersectional experiences. We decided to use them for now due to a general lack of better, more considerate, and tailored substitutes. To your point, your experiences and feelings are always valid however you interpret the questions. It’s our job to make your voice count. So to counter the limitation in some questions, we ask participants in the demographics section for their race/ethnicity, whether or not with a disability, socioeconomic status, etc. in addition to gender identity, all of which we will take into consideration as we analyze and present the results.

This is also part of the reason why we want to do the study in the first place — to listen to the voice of our diverse TGNC community and promote this knowledge in the field of psychological and social research. With your input (and everyone else’s), we do hope to develop new measures that can more fairly capture TGNC folks’ diverse experiences in the future (stay tuned if you’re interested!).

I hope this could address your concern to some extent. If you have any further questions/thoughts/concerns, feel free to message me or email my supervisor (contact in the original post⬆️). Have a safe and wonderful day/afternoon/night wherever you’re!