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Research study of Bisexual Women's Experiences - please participate!!

Jul 13, 2011 23:58

I am a doctoral student in clinical psychology and am recruiting participants for my IRB-approved dissertation study on the experiences of bisexual women who are in exclusive romantic relationships (including marriages, civil unions and other partnerships). Please consider participating, if you or someone you know fits this description! ( Read more... )

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1_2_suckerpunch July 14 2011, 13:45:16 UTC

I tried to take the survey but since I chose "genderqueer" as my gender identification, it booted me off. I understand you're looking for cis-women, but since I appear to all and sundry as a cis-woman regardless of what's in my head, it seems like a weird reason to be disqualified.

Just something to think about.

smurfindisguise July 15 2011, 14:42:02 UTC

Another gripe about being ineligible to participate, just because I have a trans-identified partner doesn't mean that the people in my life know that he's trans, and it doesn't mean I don't have relevant experience as someone who dates more than one gender. I don't think any data on "bisexual people that date only cis-people" is a representative sample of "bisexual people."

bi_women_study July 15 2011, 18:16:45 UTC

Thank you both for your comments and feedback! You are right in noting that your (or your partner's) trans or genderqueer identity may not be visible to the people around you, and I agree that you both may have experiences that overlap with those I am studying. But some other trans or genderqueer people's identities ARE quite visible in ways that might affect the experiences under study, and if I did not differentiate, I would have no way to account for this in my research ( ... )