The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) was conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) to examine the experiences of transgender adults in the United States. The USTS questionnaire was administered online and data were collected over a 34-day period in the summer of 2015, between August 19 and September 21. The final sample included respondents from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. military bases overseas. The USTS Public Use Dataset (PUDS) features survey results from 27,715 respondents and details the experiences of transgender people across a wide range of areas, such as education, employment, family life, health, housing, and interactions with police and prisons. The survey instrument had thirty-two sections that covered a broad array of topics, including questions related to the following topics (in alphabetical order): accessing restrooms; airport security; civic participation; counseling; family and peer support; health and health insurance; HIV; housing and homelessness; identity documents; immigration; intimate partner violence; military service; police and incarceration; policy priorities; public accommodations; sex work; sexual assault; substance use; suicidal thoughts and behaviors; unequal treatment, harassment, and physical attack; and voting. Demographic information includes age, racial and ethnic identity, sex assigned at birth, gender and preferred pronouns, sexual orientation, language(s) spoken at home, education, employment, income, religion/spirituality, and marital status. There are no publicly available data files for this study. The naming conventions were maintained from the original pre-ICPSR release and the PUDS file is restricted use along with the qualitative data (MS Excel) file. Before applying for access to these data please refer to the Approved Requests for USTS Data. These abstracts describe work currently in progress, and we provide them to help reduce the risk of duplication of research efforts.

Full text and metadata for articles used in the analyses for "Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses", currently under review for a special issue on transphobic disinformation from the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. Columns: Unnamed:0 (dataset index), media_name (media outlet where the article was published), publish_date (date of publication in YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS format), title (article title), url (article URL as obtained from MediaCloud), subtitle (article subtitle), text (article text), sent_count (number of sentences), domain (domain from which the article was obtained), gender_label (does this article contain the string "gender"?), media_group (state-level or national media collection as defined in the article -- one of {'texas', 'ohio', 'illinois', 'florida', 'california', 'newyork', 'nytimes.com', 'foxnews.com'}) Abstract: Mainstream news outlets set the agenda and terms of discussion for public discourse. As transgender people experience increasingly vitriolic attacks on their fundamental rights in the U.S., understanding the dynamics governing media discussions of transgender people becomes even more salient. The interplay between news outlets with different geographical scopes—national and local—is an important aspect of media discourse circulation. Guided by inter-media agenda-setting theory, we use transfer entropy, a measure of information flow, to quantify whether, and how, transgender discourses spread across local and national media. We find that transgender discourses on a particular topic propagate from national to state-level outlets; however, we find that this process often involves two steps: national outlets influence particular state(s), which, in turn, influence the other states. Therefore, local outlets play a more complex role in agenda-setting for transgender discourses than previously thought. We combine our quantitative study of information flow between two national outlets and six state-level news collections with two comprehensive qualitative case studies, including recommendations for interventions to improve the state of the news ecosystem, to shed light on the circulation and nature of various transgender discourses across different geographical scopes within the U.S. media landscape.

The EU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survey (EU LGBT) was conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). It is the first ever EU-wide online survey to establish an overview concerning the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (18 years or older) and their experiences with regard to fundamental rights in the 28 EU Member States. Up until now, there has been very little comparable data collected across the EU about the everyday experiences of LGBT people with respect to discrimination, and lot of the available information is limited to occasional news reports and court judgements. As the first EU-wide survey of its kind, the results support the development of equal treatment policies for LGBT people in the European Union and set the agenda for years to come. Based on the survey results, national and European policy makers, as well as non-governmental organisations, are able to better target their advocacy strategies and activities to support LGBT communities to live and express themselves freely in a non-discriminatory environment. The survey was completely anonymous (no additional data on the participants and their sessions were logged in any way). The survey data collection operated by Gallup Europe, a professional survey and consultancy firm. In order to ensure that the survey delivers evidence needed for policy making, the EU LGBT Survey counted on the participation of a large and diverse group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people from each country. Hence, it was vitally important for the success of the survey that FRA and Gallup worked together with civil society organisations to reach a wide audience and raise awareness concerning the survey, including participants emailing the survey, sharing it through social media or simply inviting LGBT friends to take part. More information can be found on the FRA website The data represents a self-selected sample and not a random sample. Please see technical report for details on data collection and dissemination of survey to potential respondents. Web-based survey