Afternoon all,

I give 2 workshops to researchers and HDR students on survey design and have had a section on asking biological sex, gender identity and sexual orientation for a while now.

It’s such a fast moving area I take notes and every now and then update it. The posts and discussion we had on this a while ago were very useful, thanks to all involved :) I’ve found some time to update it and I’m pretty sure I saw the below during that and was wondering where it came from? As I’d like to reference it.

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Transgender people and other gender and sex minorities have always been part of society, even if these identities have not been encoded in previous data collection efforts. It is a scientific reality that much research is focused on response variables that can be moderated by gender identity, sex characteristics, or both. It is time to end the erasure of GSM in our standard data collection procedures both for the sake of inclusivity and for the sake of decreasing measurement error and bias.