Thank you for taking part in this study. It looks at how professionals across different fields encounter and understand practices that may aim to change, suppress or discourage the gender a person identifies with
Gender identity – refers to each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body, wherein a person may externalise their identity through gender expression(s).
, who they are attracted to
Sexual orientation - refers to how one finds oneself feeling drawn (or not drawn) to another person in a sexual and/or romantic way. This encompasses romantic, affectional, and sexual attraction to, and intimate and sexual relations with, individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. The three aspects most commonly measured when identifying sexual orientation are sexual attraction, sexual behaviour, and sexual identity.
, or how they express their gender
Gender expression - refers to each person’s presentation of the person’s gender identity, through physical appearance – including dress, hairstyles, accessories, cosmetics – and mannerisms, speech, behavioural patterns, names and personal references. Gender expression may or may not conform to a person’s gender identity. Gender expression is separated from gender identity as both cisgender or transgender men can for example deploy gender-stereotypically-masculine behaviour and expression, or not. Although there are variations in how gender expression (often defined as ranges of femininity and masculinity) is defined and expressed both across racial and cultural groups and over time, at the core of the dominant gender-expression belief system is the expectation that people who are assigned female at birth should have a ‘feminine’ gender expression, and those assigned male at birth should have a ‘masculine’ gender expression.
. This study is commissioned by the European Commission and conducted under the study on conversion practices against LGBTIQ+ people in the European Union.
Your perspective is valuable, whatever professional field you work in and whatever views you hold on to these questions.
We aim to hear a diversity of views on this topic. We welcome responses from professionals with a wide range of experiences, opinions and levels of familiarity with these questions, including those for whom this is not a central part of their work. There are no right or wrong answers.
The survey takes about 15–20 minutes.
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Your responses are completely anonymous and confidential. We do not ask for your name, and your answers are analysed without direct identifiers. At the end of the survey, you can choose whether to be contacted for a follow up one-to-one online interview. If you choose to share your contact details, these will be stored separately from your survey answers and used only to contact you about these follow-up activities. Your contact details will be deleted after the study.
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