<div dir="ltr">Hello, <div><br></div><div>Please share with your networks.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>Max<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">K.R. Roberto</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kr.roberto@gmail.com">kr.roberto@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:59 AM<br>Subject: [REFORMANET] Classifying Transgender Topics: Survey<br>To: <a href="mailto:reformanet@googlegroups.com">reformanet@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><div dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">[Please share this with any interested parties.]</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Do you identify as transgender and/or gender-nonconforming? Are you 18 or over? Do you live in the United States? Would you like to discuss the language that you use to describe your gender identity?</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">For the purposes of this study, “transgender” and “gender-nonconforming” are used for any person whose gender identity currently differs from the one they were assigned at birth.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">If so, you are invited to participate in a research study exploring trans language being conducted by K.R. Roberto, a Ph.D. candidate in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the supervision of Dr. Kathryn La Barre, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This study was approved by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects on Feb. 29, 2016.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Survey participants will be asked to review a list of terms used to describe gender identities; they will indicate which term(s) they identify with personally, and then select term(s) with which they are familiar. This survey will take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">These results will then be used to create a thesaurus of transgender and gender-nonconforming language. Task participants will be asked to review a short list of items (primarily books and videos) and to assign keywords for each item using the thesaurus; this task will take approximately 30-60 minutes to complete. Participants may also volunteer to be interviewed about their experiences; this interview is expected to be no longer than 60 minutes.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Participants may choose to participate in the survey, the thesaurus project, or both.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Review of the criteria for participation:</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">1) Currently self-identify as transgender and/or gender-nonconforming</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">2) Be 18 or over</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">3) Currently live in the United States</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The initial survey can be found at <a href="https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/3390592" target="_blank">https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/3390592</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Thanks!</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">K.R. Roberto</span></div><div></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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