{"id":43239,"date":"2015-10-14T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43239"},"modified":"2015-10-14T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:56:10","slug":"from-multiracial-to-transgender-assessing-attitudes-toward-expanding-gender-options-on-the-us-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43239","title":{"rendered":"From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward Expanding Gender Options on the US Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/23289252-2848895\" target=\"_blank\">From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward Expanding Gender Options on the US Census<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tsq.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tsq.dukejournals.org\/content\/2\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 1, February 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 77-100<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/23289252-2848895\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/23289252-2848895<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.rice.edu\/content.aspx?id=76\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kristen Schilt<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uchicago.edu\/people\/faculty\/schilt.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jenifer Bratter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Rice University, Houston, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged multiracial Americans on the decennial census in an attempt to better capture racial heterogeneity and to more closely align what is publicly collected on forms with people&#8217;s personal understandings of their racial identity. In this article, we start a discussion of how the census\u2014a major source of political identity recognition and legitimation\u2014could be more inclusive of gender variance. We ask: (1) Is there support for a transgender category on the US census? (2) Who might select a transgender option if it were provided? To answer these questions, we conducted questionnaire research at three transgender and genderqueer conferences and found strong support for the inclusion of a transgender category. Conversely, we found that many people did not currently check \u201ctransgender\u201d on forms when given the opportunity. As we show, the decision to check \u201ctransgender\u201d varies by what we term gender identity validation. In other words, people who identified as male or female and who felt others viewed them as unequivocally male or female, respectively, were less likely to check \u201ctransgender\u201d than people who identified as transgender or who experienced a discrepancy between their self-perceived and other-perceived gender identity. These differences suggest that\u2014similar to the push for adding a multiracial category to the census\u2014the expansion of sex\/gender categories is most likely to come from individuals who experience themselves as constrained by the existing possibilities and\/or who are stigmatized by others&#8217; conceptions of the appropriate alignment of bodies and genders.<\/p>\n<p>Read or puchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/tsq.dukejournals.org\/content\/2\/1\/77.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward Expanding Gender Options on the US Census Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 2, Number 1, February 2015 pages 77-100 DOI: 10.1215\/23289252-2848895 Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jenifer Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University, Houston, Texas In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,666,8,394,20],"tags":[215,344,21412,21411],"class_list":["post-43239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-gaylesbian","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jenifer-bratter","tag-jenifer-l-bratter","tag-kristen-schilt","tag-transgender-studies-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43240,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239\/revisions\/43240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}