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Cake day: September 18th, 2024

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  • I think the latter part of this survey is just bad.

    • Asking “at what age did you begin transition?” before any other timeline questions puts the importance and emphasis on actions taken instead of starting with self acceptance. This feels like framing I’d see from people that are less knowledgeable of the trans experience as a whole, which I know isn’t the case of the people who put this together.
    • The bigger issue is the follow up question, “after you realized you were trans/gender diverse, how long did it take for you to begin to act on it?” The entire self acceptance moment of realizing you were trans is an after thought to “how long did it take to do something about it?” At no point are we asked about the first big moment in someone’s transition, only relative to what many people wrongly assume is the start of a transition.

    The combination of these questions in this order and nothing about the beginning of the journey is really unfortunate. I filled out the survey up until that point, but didn’t feel like continuing after that. I know there’s only so much that can be asked, but I don’t think the way this was formatted was an issue with not having enough room for questions or overloading a survey.