i'm an idiot https://www.guidedtrack.com/programs/dhvvxod/run

As I said a few times in the survey, just quit whenever you want! There's a ton of questions and I don't expect one person to answer them all, and they're randomized, so just answer however many you feel like.

ty ty I will go dutifully correct this error

My perception is that you overrate the potential harm, that your opinions are not shared by the trans people I know, and that you undervalue the generation of knowledge compared to me.

It sounds like you're coming from a type of worldview that I do not share in a very deep, low-level way. I have consistently, for years, investigated things that many people complained was "insensitive", and I consider this very important to do. I come from a very religious background where I am accustomed to people giving harm-based reasons for why certain things shouldn't be questioned.

I have often publicly spoken about the need for acceptance of trans people, especially with aiding in transition, because I feel principled about freedom in expression of gender, even when the opposite side thinks that it will cause vague, generalized harm. I also feel principled about freedom of my curiosity here too, even if you think that it will cause vague, generalized harm.

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My goal here is not to generate research that defends trans people, my goal is to find the truth; if it supports your narratives about trans people that's great; if it doesn't that's also great, because that which can be killed by the truth, should be!

This feels kinda like when people were trying to be anti-gay by insisting people choose to be gay, and so it was their fault. My argument is that engaging with this argument with "no it's not a choice" is a dangerous thing in the first place - it implicitly says "gay people are *only* okay because they didn't have control over it; if anybody *does* have a choice over being socially transgressive then that is bad.*
This bothers me - it *doesn't matter* if they choose to be gay or not, the point is treating them with dignity and respect.

I feel the same thing about transfeminine people being fetishists (which is a thing I'm about to test in an upcoming survey). I don't give a shit if they are or aren't, and somehow invalidating an identity because it's associated with sexual arousal feels ridiculous to me. Who cares, let people transition, treat them as the gender they want to be treated as.

Amab and afab nonbinary ppl answer surveys differently, so it's important for me to track that

Amab and afab enby people give meaningfully different answers on surveys, so it's good to track that as one possible factor for why I'm seeing the data I'm getting

Lack of peer review doesn't make a study inherently flawed? A study doesn't become more or less flawed because some peers look at it. I *have* consulted statisticians, I *have* previewed my surveys with literally hundreds of trans people.

I have an extremely low opinion of academia and consider a lot of their science and process to have significant errors; I have zero desire to get published in a journal, I don't want to contribute to the academic system.

Am banning you from here, like I did other places, because you seem very consistently uncharitable.

I don't think searching for answers about which fetishes trans people have differing opinions on is a great motivation for study.

That's fine if you don't think it is; I *do* think it is, so please stop following me around the internet telling me I should not investigate my curiosity, that some questions shouldn't be asked, that I should not in fact search for knowledge.

(I've already investigated some stuff around trans people fetishes, here's the correlation results for ~40 fetishes, n=21,000 or so

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aR6KcRdWbL8oCukUxi-9F9g0QDShLxqriVSVeOToloU/edit?usp=sharing )

ty! I'm using this survey to gain data so i can present users with scores in another, much more comprehensive survey where I do include things like geographic location, religion they were raised on, etc.

Some of the ambiguous questions are ambiguous cause I pulled them from my big comprehensive survey and they ended up a bit out of context; I don't mind this too much, I erred in the direction of gathering too much data and it's nbd if I throw out some ambiguous ones.

I'm torn about the sliding scales, because the program I'm using to build this doesn't have a visually clean 7-point scale; my conclusion right now is I'm going to replace *most* of my sliding scales in my other big survey with the 7point, but not all.

Yeah people are incredibly bad at reading surveys! Fwiw I didn't put *too much* effort into this one, cause even if they're rating things personally as taboo, it's the *relative* ranking that I'm concerned about, and I wouldn't expect misreading the instructions to lead to strong effects for some fetishes but not others. I do agree it might result in a bit more noise though.

But I appreciate the feedback, very clear and great points.