Alicorn comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 03 November 2011 03:01:57PM *  9 points [-]

I was kind of surprised how many people can't settle on a specific gender

You could cut the gordian knot by borrowing Randall Munroe and Relsqui's solution for the xkcd color survey, which was to ask about chromosomal sex:

Do you have a Y chromosome?

[Don't Know] [Yes] [No]

If unsure, select "Yes" if you are physically male and "No" if you are physically female. If you have had SRS, please respond for your sex at birth. This question is relevant to the genetics of colorblindness.

Comment author: Relsqui 30 November 2011 10:56:02PM 1 point [-]

Also, rereading that explanation, I'm annoyed at how I worded it. It's okay, but my trans*-inclusive vocabulary has improved since then and I could do better. Hell, just "if unsure, select 'yes' if you were born with a penis" would have been sufficient.

Comment author: Alicorn 30 November 2011 11:36:46PM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure how any of these wordings of questions handle people with ambiguous genitalia.

Comment author: Relsqui 04 December 2011 07:50:36AM 0 points [-]

Fair point. I'm not sure either; I think I'm relying on a given individual who is e.g. intersex either a) knowing that, and being able to make a better-educated guess about their chromosomes than any heuristic I offer, or b) not knowing that, which I'm willing to assume correlates well to having genitals that either do look like a penis or don't.

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