Hello, The association where I work added sexual orientation and gender identity questions to our surveys three years ago (we survey graduate students in the US and Canada). While the sexual orientation question is working quite well, we are not satisfied with the reliability of the information we get from the gender identity question. We get a great many people writing in comments which makes it difficult to report reliable rates of transgender individuals. This is the item we currently use, which is based upon the Williams Institute recommendations. How do you self-identify? o Female o Male o Transgender female-to-male o Transgender male-to-female o Transgender do not identify as exclusively male or female o I self-identify as: _________________ A great many of our researchers have noted issues with this question so we have decided to convene a workgroup to look at the current best practices in asking gender identity and to decide upon the best way to ask this question (i.e. keep, modify, completely revise). If you are aware of any best practice documents on asking gender identity, or have developed items you feel might be more appropriate, I would greatly appreciate receiving that information. You can email me directly at: tstcloud@gmail.com. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Tiffani