I found it surprising that the study claimed so many identified as cis and nonbinary, so decided to dig a bit deeper. The way they determined this was first asking them their assigned sex at...
I found it surprising that the study claimed so many identified as cis and nonbinary, so decided to dig a bit deeper.
The way they determined this was first asking them their assigned sex at birth. Then they asked
Do you currently describe yourself as man, woman, or transgender?
Which strikes me as an incredibly poorly worded question. If the assigned sex at birth didn't match the gender reported in this question, they'd go into the TransPop, the rest went into generations.
TransPop re-asks the gender identity and assigned sex at birth questions, this time prompting with an additional question if you respond "transgender" where you get a limited list of options.
In generations, you are simply provided a list which gives you the options of: man, woman, transgender man, transgender woman, and non-binary.
Only the people who made it to the end of either and selected 'non-binary' were included in the study.
However... this is where I get lost. How did they attribute who was non-binary to transgender status and not? In the text all we have to go off is the following statement:
Most nonbinary LGBTQ adults did not identify as transgender (Figure 1).
The only way I can see this playing out is that they just drew the assumption that people who selected "man" or "woman" when asked about gender identity instead of "transgender" and ended up in the generations subset but then selected "non-binary" did not, in fact, identity as transgender. I think this is a huge leap and is simply not supported by the evidence.
I found it surprising that the study claimed so many identified as cis and nonbinary, so decided to dig a bit deeper.
The way they determined this was first asking them their assigned sex at birth. Then they asked
Which strikes me as an incredibly poorly worded question. If the assigned sex at birth didn't match the gender reported in this question, they'd go into the TransPop, the rest went into generations.
TransPop re-asks the gender identity and assigned sex at birth questions, this time prompting with an additional question if you respond "transgender" where you get a limited list of options.
In generations, you are simply provided a list which gives you the options of: man, woman, transgender man, transgender woman, and non-binary.
Only the people who made it to the end of either and selected 'non-binary' were included in the study.
However... this is where I get lost. How did they attribute who was non-binary to transgender status and not? In the text all we have to go off is the following statement:
The only way I can see this playing out is that they just drew the assumption that people who selected "man" or "woman" when asked about gender identity instead of "transgender" and ended up in the generations subset but then selected "non-binary" did not, in fact, identity as transgender. I think this is a huge leap and is simply not supported by the evidence.