A lot of the asks I see that are upset the survey doesn’t ask a certain question or track a certain experience seem to me to be missing the point of the survey. (And I did too, for awhile! This wasn’t something I understood until recently, and I’ve been following this for years.) As I understand it, the survey is specifically about trends in the *language used* by a group of people historically unincluded/unconsidered by language. There is not established vocabulary for our identities and experiences so we have to make it ourselves, and this survey is trying to aggregate and analyze how we do that. It’s not about what our identities or experiences of gender *are*, it’s about how we talk about them. I wonder if there are ways you can be more clear about the purpose of the survey within the survey itself that would help clear up the misconceptions?

Yeah you get it!! Like, I get a lot of people in the feedback box saying things like "you should ask when we transitioned" or "you should ask what sex people were assigned at birth" or "you should find out how people present in terms of clothing etc" or "ask about experiences with discrimination." But no! Language only! Linguistics, not sociologics! So many people are studying all that other…