DO BRITISH MUMS CARE ABOUT CHEMICALS IN CHILDREN'S CLOTHING?

[FashionAndMumsResearch]

Along with the rise of clean eating, beauty, and homeware, fashion may be emerging as the next safety concern.

I'm a Master's student at the London College of Fashion, researching non-toxic childrenswear!

I'd be massively grateful if any British mothers of children aged 3-12 could take 5 minutes to complete the questionnaire. I have to hit 200 responses, which is challenging as I don't personally know many mothers. If you feel like it and have the time, please feel free to share it with any friends or group chats. https://arts.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cLOsTjZpcDVgKWy

Thank you so much and have a wonderful week Xx

Again, don't be such a fucking nasty bully. what repellent behaviour.

Good grief! Some of the responses here are insane (and from people who have no clue about research). Don’t let them get to you.

I have no idea about ‘toxic’ clothing or what that means, and would assume any toxins are washed out in the wash, or at least are in the clothes at such small concentrations that they won’t have any harmful effect on humans. Good luck with your masters.

Hi I have changed it! I cant remove anything but I can edit. I changed the wording and added an option to not respond.

Most school uniform isn’t bought through the school. My DCs uniform was a mix of the official jumper and polo shirts, which various local places sold, and the acceptable uniform generally, eg the gingham summer dress in Primary, and the trousers, skirts, shirts etc for secondary. When you buy uniform from a retailer such as John Lewis or M&S, it’s hard to find anything in natural fibres, even shirts. Most of the skirts and trousers are polyester and many have stain resistant coatings. John Lewis did one shirt in pure cotton.
I spent a small fortune on school uniform as I wouldn’t buy stuff made from polyester. School jumpers were changed from cotton to an acrylic mix, there was no other option.

As you were concerned about the ethics of asking about sex, what do you think the implications are of retrospectively amending the questionnaire from which your dissertation data derive?

Did you consider piloting your survey @FashionAndMumsResearch? Changing it once it's gone live, and after you've obviously had a significant number of responses is really not good research practice. (And I'm an ex-researcher)

OP - I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here that you are genuinely young and naive rather than trolling us.

I work in scientific research in a university. I know how pervasive gender nonsense is in universities - the sciences are bad but the arts are even worse.

What you are experiencing comes from the last decade+ of people following the "be kind" and "transwomen are women" mantras and not applying any critical thinking - even though their job is to think deeply and critically.

So we're now left with the circular mess that you are experiencing where:

• Journal articles report gender rather than sex (even though sometimes they mean sex - who really knows)
• Academics use gender in place of sex and so it becomes normalised
• Ethics committees also require you to use gender (and trigger warnings seemingly) in your research

And so the cycle continues. You should read about the the Pathways trial (Puberty blockers) that was approved by regulators and ethics boards. It was only when gender critical scientists spoke out about this that the MHRA suddenly had concerns and the approvals got pulled. There were FOIs of the ethics boards that show how little thinking was actually going on there.

PS - I hope you are aware of all the limitations of conducting surveys like this particularly through a links on a big site. You have no way of knowing how reliable your data is (hint - it is not)

Hi yes I did actually do a pilot and did not receive any of this feedback. I really wasn't expecting it.

Come on, let's not do that. That is really unfair. There is no need to be reporting anything to the ethics committee!

Hi there,
We are closing this thread to new posts now. We do not feel it is doing anyone any favours anymore, least of all the OP. We may reopen it, with the OP's permission, at a later date.
MNHQ

At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, OP, much of the feedback is not in good faith.

This is one extreme of the anti-trans debate bullying a young researcher because she's dared to ask a standard question about gender in a survey.

Much easier said than done, but don't let it get to you.