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Written by Doc Impossible on 2025-01-19 at 12:29

Professional opinion: there is absolutely no excuse, in this day and age, for a study on trans realities that does either of these things:

1. Has a participant pool less than 100. Seriously, we've been coming out at unprecedented rates for years now, and gender clinics across the western worldare SWAMPED. Make some contacts, coauthor the damn thing, and get a reasonable participant pool for your work. It's not hard anymore.

2. Reducing our gender diversity to a binary.

Seriously. RECORD OUR INDIVIDUAL GENDERS AND FUCKING REPORT THEM!!!

Words like transmasculine and transfeminine are very imperfect terms that let the trans community talk about categories of shared experience--for instance, what "top surgery" means in one of two general contexts, adding or removing--in a shorthand way. My experience as a binary trans woman is VASTLY different from that of any bigender, genderfluid, demigirl, or agender person out there, and researchers do their results violence to conflate those experiences.

These are easy things any researcher can do, they're backed by disciplinary best practice (asking about gender modality), and the details help us understand what makes us us.

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