Thank you for your interest in participating in our confidential research project being conducted on behalf of Equality California, an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization that has spent more than 20 years working at the local, state, and national levels to reduce disparities in LGBTQ+ health and well-being. The goal of this project is to better understand the experiences of people who identify as gender expansive–including people who identify as transgender, non-binary, intersex, genderqueer, two-spirit, indigiqueer, and gender non-conforming–and how they communicate about themselves and their lives to their health care providers. Ideally, this research will help gender-expansive people get the health care they need in an environment where health care providers treat them with dignity, understanding, empathy and respect.
Note that we will be prioritizing research participants who are not actively involved in LGBTQ+ advocacy in order to lift up gender-expansive voices who are not normally heard in these types of conversations.
This research project will be conducted over the course of four days: Thursday, May 22; Friday, May 23; Wednesday May 28; and Thursday May 29. Saturday through Tuesday (May 24-27) will be days to catch up on any previous questions. Each day you log in to answer new questions, plan to spend about 45-60 minutes. While the answers you provide while you are logged in will be recorded for research purposes, any comments you make will not be associated with your name (or your organization/employer).
If you are selected to participate, you will receive an honorarium of $250 after completion of the research project as a thank-you for your time.
If you are interested in participating, please begin by answering the questions below. Again, your responses are completely confidential and are being collected solely for the purpose of ensuring we include perspectives from a wide variety of people. Please note that we can only accommodate a limited number of participants, so not everyone who expresses interest in participating will be selected to do so.
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