I’m Charlie. I’m a trans dude who has been fairly active in the community here in NYC for well over a decade. My colleagues and I at the Hunter HIV/AIDS Research Team (HART) have developed a national survey that seeks to quantify various indicators of the physical, sexual, and emotional health of men and nonbinary individuals of trans masculine experience. This survey was developed through one on one interviews with a diverse group of 30 trans masculine participants, documenting a wide range of wants and needs for the future provision of transgender health.
We launched this survey on Facebook one week ago, and the response so far has already been overwhelming, having received entries from hundreds of transmasculine participants. Help us out with a reblog to spread the word? I am an Old Millenial thus I am not very good at tumblr.
As a heads up: the survey is pretty long. People gave us such meaningful and diverse stories in the interviews that there was a lot here we wanted to be able to capture here. Folks should plan to spend around 20-30 minutes on it, and know that if you want to take a break and come back, you can pick up where you left off as long as you haven’t cleared your browser cache. Please keep sharing, particularly with folks we don’t usually get to see/hear from, like POC, nonbinary transmascs, folks who have had bottom surgery or have given birth, and people in rural areas. This study was funded by the NIH, so we have the opportunity to show that we exist and that our needs are important – on a federal level. In this postapocalyptic hellscape that is the current US administration, having data on the needs of vulnerable communities is powerful ammunition. Compensation is available through a raffle of 10 $100 gift cards, and we are working to see if we can get more. The survey is mobile phone friendly and compatible with screen reading assistive tech.
We’re working on posting it around on other social media platforms, so to keep up to date as those roll out, feel free to follow us on our FB page at https://www.facebook.com/TMHealthSurvey/
Endless thanks for all your help on getting the word out. We couldn’t do this without the outpouring of community support we’ve received, and we are so grateful for everyone who has contributed to getting this off the ground and out into the world. If you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to DM me or email my colleague Gus Klein (gklein@gradcenter.cuny.edu).
Kimchi and Justice 