Real Girls' Talk: Data File with all eligible responses through 5-1-2025

This is the raw data file of all respondents up to May 1st, 2025. The only processing to this file is the removal of IP address, geolocation, and response ID information to ensure that the data is fully anonymized, per IRB-approved protocol. An abstract of the study for which this data was gathered follows:

Introduction: Trans women live precarious lives. The available literature shows that trans women have a very high unemployment rate (15% or more) and face additional challenges based on their positionality. These challenges can include being forced out of formal employment, legislation that targets their ability to exist equally in public, being rhetorically constructed as monstrous, and rampant discrimination across all spheres.

Aim: To overcome the epistemic barriers preventing trans women from being considered as women through demonstration of the real, lived, material conditions they face as assessed through harms, spaces, and time.

Method: Using Likert scales, the study measured risks, harms, spaces, and themes, regarding transfeminine precarity, in order to demonstrate whether and to what depth trans women face precarity on the axis of their gender positionality.

Results: A total of 84 survey respondents were gathered, across the U.S. from March through May 2024 via multi-modal snowball sampling. Of those, 85 made it through consent and screener questions to the actual study instrument. Notable findings include that more than three out of four trans women (75.0%, n = 57/76) indicated risk of harm due to hypervisibility, nearly one in five trans women (17.3%, n = 14/81) were unemployed over the preceding 3-month period, and less than 6 in 10 ( 55.6%, n = 45/81) were employed full time.

Conclusion: Precarity is a state that applies to trans women as a penalty for their gender. Results of the study led to the coining of two terms in Women’s and Gender Studies, “razed memory” and “triple bind,” both of which are discipline-new developments, or frameworks for analysis, by this author- to the best of the author’s knowledge.