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Recommendations from the Gender Identity in US Surveillance Group
February 2015
This article draws on the experience of the GenIUSS Group to provide an overview of challenges and opportunities related to gender identity data collection and makes eight recommendations improving measures of gender identity on surveys. It was published in Transgender Studies Quarterly in February 2015.
Highlights
The GenIUSS Group is a multidisciplinary group of experts who seek to increase the inclusion of gender-related measures in surveys.
U.S. health surveys do not routinely include questions to identify gender minority respondents, resulting in a lack of representative health data.
Refining and standardizing questions about gender identity on surveys would result in improved data on gender minority adults.