Concern: The selection choices exclude binary trans individuals and are not worded well.
Our Response: By far, this was the area where we received the most feedback and criticism–and rightfully so. During the construction of the survey, we wanted to keep this section as broad as possible to prevent a massive influx of write-in responses to analyze. Unfortunately, we wound up inadvertently excluding binary trans people in the process. It was never our intention to exclude any gender identity; given that the four people who conducted this survey are trans and/or nonbinary, we should have caught that but didn’t. It was a massive fuck-up on our end, full stop, and we deeply apologize for our mistake.
Improvement: Multiple gender identities could be selected. The choices given in the survey are as follow:
Cis man
Cis woman
Transgender
Non-binary
Agender
Other
Prefer not to answer
A future survey would likely be better suited for the following, with the option to choose multiple identities again:
Man
Woman
Cisgender
Transgender
Non-binary
Agender
Genderqueer
Other
Prefer not to answer
The suggested fix would hopefully allow for a better encapsulation of gender identities.