RCRED C Research

How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements others have made about public facilities and care?

How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements others have made about public facilities and care? a) People should have the right to request and be provided with a medical provider of the same birth sex as themselves for intimate medical examinations or care (e.g. prostate exam, mammogram)

Wording notes: 'birth sex' rather than 'sex' or 'gender' | attributes the statement to unnamed 'others' | does not mention transgender people, so it reads as a general patient-choice item

tilts_restrictive — the battery establishes birth sex as the operative category and frames single-sex provision as a right, before transgender people are introduced later in the questionnaire

How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements others have made about public facilities and care?

How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements others have made about public facilities and care? Hospitals should be required to provide single sex wards, rather than mixed wards

Wording notes: does not name transgender people

unclear — as written the item is about ward mixing generally; its relevance to trans policy comes from the commissioner's framing rather than the stem

How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements others have made about public facilities and care?

How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements others have made about public facilities and care? Public buildings (e.g. banks, schools, etc) should have to provide single sex toilets, as opposed to mixed sex (gender neutral toilets)

Wording notes: frames the alternative as 'mixed sex (gender neutral toilets)' rather than as additional provision

unclear — the binary between single-sex and gender-neutral excludes the common real-world arrangement of both being provided

At what point, if at all, should a person who identifies a member of the opposite sex be able to change their sex on their birth cert?

Wording notes: 'identifies a member of the opposite sex' (sic) | surgical and hormonal gatekeeping options outnumber the self-ID option three to one | does not tell respondents that self-ID is already Irish law

tilts_restrictive — the response set offers one self-ID option against three progressively more restrictive ones, and omits the fact that self-ID has been the law in Ireland since 2015 - a fact the deck supplies only in a later question's preamble

Now I would like you to think about sex education in school.

Now I would like you to think about sex education in school. Can you tell me whether you think the following topics should or should not be taught in school? a) that it is possible to change your sex b) that it is possible to be born in the wrong body c) that there are many different genders outside of the traditional male/female

Wording notes: 'born in the wrong body' is an activist-and-critic shorthand rather than clinical language | 'many different genders outside of the traditional male/female' presupposes a traditional binary

loaded_terms — each of the three propositions is phrased in the contested shorthand used by critics of gender-identity education rather than in the terms a curriculum would use

Some transgender people have gender reassignment surgery. This is surgery by which a transgender person's physical attributes are altered to match the gender they identify with (e.g. breast and genital surgery).

Some transgender people have gender reassignment surgery. This is surgery by which a transgender person's physical attributes are altered to match the gender they identify with (e.g. breast and genital surgery). Do you think that someone born male, who now identifies as a woman, but who has not had gender reassignment surgery should or should not be allowed to... a) Use a changing room with women and girls? b) Compete in women's sports { eg at all levels from elite rugby to club GAA, to Ladies golf to Triathlon.) c) Be housed in female prisons when required d) Be housed in women's refuges/rape crisis centre when required

Wording notes: restricts the subject to trans women who have NOT had surgery | 'someone born male, who now identifies as a woman' | pairs changing rooms and sport with prisons and rape crisis centres in one battery

tilts_restrictive — the surgical preamble makes non-surgical status the salient fact, the subject is described in birth-sex terms, and bundling everyday facilities with prisons and rape crisis centres imports a safety frame into the changing-room and sport items

As of September 2015, Trans people in Ireland have been able to have their preferred gender legally recognised by the state in the Gender Recognition Act of 2015. Some countries around the world use a medical model for changing to their preferred gender, whereas others, like Ireland use self-ID. This is where a person can pick their preferred gender and be automatically issued a gender recognition certificate.

As of September 2015, Trans people in Ireland have been able to have their preferred gender legally recognised by the state in the Gender Recognition Act of 2015. Some countries around the world use a medical model for changing to their preferred gender, whereas others, like Ireland use self-ID. This is where a person can pick their preferred gender and be automatically issued a gender recognition certificate. Do you think a person who has been charged with a sexual offence should be allowed to obtain a gender recognition certificate?

Wording notes: links legal gender recognition to sexual offending | 'charged with' rather than convicted | preamble contrasts self-ID with a 'medical model' before the offence framing

loaded_terms — the item makes an accused sex offender the test case for a legal right held by all trans people, and uses charge rather than conviction, which imports the presumption of guilt