Third Party Surveys of Gender Variant People.
Women Students' Experience of Violence
The NUS Women's Campaign is pleased to announce the launch of a survey exploring women students' experiences of harassment, violence, sexual assault and stalking. The survey aims to uncover the specific experiences of women students in relation to violence, how it affects their education, and to establish how safe or unsafe women students feel in different environments.
The survey is very trans inclusive and the NUS is trying to establish as one of the goals of the survey the level of violence or abuse trans and transsexual women may suffer over and above that by other women.
They have had a 2% response from the Trans community so far in terms of the total number of surveys complete and would like to see more replies.
The survey can be found here.
PACE are conducting a survey to explore what young LGBTQQI people’s experiences are (and consequently what their needs are) with regards to education, coming out and early sexual experiences.
The survey can be found here.
Transgender Representations in the Media Survey
Trans Media Watch, working in conjunction with the Scottish Transgender Alliance, have produced a survey aiming at finding out how transgender people experience the media. They aim to use the evidence collected to support our campaigns for better, fairer representation of transgender people in the media. They want to make sure that the views of young people and their families are properly represented.
This survey is for people living in the UK. They are asking for your input in order to help media providers develop a better, fairer and more representative service. The survey can be found here.
UK Transgender Quality Of Life Survey
The Equality Network's Scottish Transgender Alliance is working to research quality of life and health issues for transgender people. The research findings will be used to inform Government and NHS policy work on transgender equality and inclusion. The survey measures key aspects of quality of life using internationally standardised questions designed by the World Health Organisation.
The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete.
The survey need a large number of responses in order for the findings to be of most use. It is really important that as many people as possible complete the survey. The survey is for ALL transgender people – from across a diverse spectrum of gender identity – including men and women with transsexual backgrounds and all kinds of cross-dressing, non-binary or gender-fluid people.
So if you are aged at least 16 and currently living anywhere in the UK, please take a moment to complete the survey now and help the Government and NHS to better understand quality of life and health issues for transgender people.
Please complete the survey online or complete this questionaire and send it to Equality Network, 30 Bernard Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6PR Fax: 07020 933 954.
The first set of data for a pleminary report for the Scotish Government was collected on the 20th August but please still try to complete the survey, as this data will be analysed by GIRES and STA and used to inform wider governemnt.
Handholding in Lesbian Couples
What does handholding mean to you? If you are a lesbian in a relationship and at least 18 years old, we invite you to complete a short handholding exercise with your partner and individually complete a 15-minute on-line survey on handholding in lesbian couples. All answers to the survey will be absolutely confidential and names will not be recorded. This study has been reviewed by the Dalhousie University Ethics Review Board. For more information and the survey, please go here.
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