Women and Equalities dept asking LBGT etc to complete EU survey on hate crimes and other challenges

[theOtherPamAyres]

The Women's and Equality Department draws our attention to an EU-wide survey by the EU Rights Agency. (11/06/2019)

Respondents need to be lesbian, gay, trans, intersex, non-binary, gender non-conforming, etc. It says that the survey will take 20 minutes and covers discrimination, challenges, hate crimes and other 'views'.

Since I'm gender non-conforming AND gender-free, I don't see why I shouldn't give them the benefit of my views. Join me, if you have the time and patience

lgbtisurvey.eu/lgbti/

original tweet from W&E here:

twitter.com/WomenEqualities/status/1138393100756369408

As you complete it, it actually doesn’t include gender free people specifically. Unless you want to identify as trans ( or lesbian or bi ) then you can’t complete it.

Aaargh. It's one of those surveys with very little room in the free text option. It's likely that you will be driven up the wall with all that 'assigned at birth' nonsense, as well as the sheer ignorance around intersex, if you opt to describe yourself as non-binary/gender free.

May be OK for lesbians, though.

There's a big section for free text at the end.

So... did they forget about women who might be on maternity leave? I read and re- read it.

I've just completed as I am a lesbian. It is solely about hate crime incidents and direct discrimination. There is nothing related to self-id etc within it. Please do not fill this in if you are not LGBT as it will dilute the statistics in regard to the frequency of violence and attacks we as a community face as well as undermining our lived experiences.

I filled it in because I'm a lesbian.

Yeah I recognise your username Super . I meant more along the lines of people disingenuously 'identifying' as non-binary so they're eligible to give their opinion on self ID. Definitely not suggesting you were doing that!

Thanks :)
As a more general point, I feel strongly about lesbians reporting hate crimes (in Scotland this is easy with a self-reporting form on the police scotland website) as I think there's a narrative that we don't experience hate crime any more because... equal marriage?
Or something...
When I talk to police though work they just shrug and point to the reporting figures.
Some communities are much better than others at reporting.
You can stay anonymous so there's no need for follow-up or going to court etc.
It was a bit dismal filling in that form. I try and report things as they happen but then put them out of my mind. When I think of numbers, or of how out I can be at work, or of quite scary threatening incidents all in one account, it's a bit overwhelming tbh.