CTAC is a member of the Community Research Alliance, as group of no-profits that help researchers design research projects and help to recruit people who want to take part in the research. At a meeting recently a researcher was discussing his project to study depression in the elderly and we suggested adding a more demographic question and changing one question.
CTAC suggested changing the question that asked for your gender from “What is your gender?” to “What was your gender assigned at birth?” and adding “What is the gender identity?”
By making those changes their study will also be able to look to see how depression affects the elderly transgender community. In addition, being a member of the alliance we can help recruit trans people for the study.
