“State, provincial, and national policymakers in Canada, the UK, and US have pursued controversial proposals regulating access to gender affirming care, public bathrooms, and competitive sports… Many trans and nonbinary philosophers find themselves forced to make difficult decisions about where to apply for graduate school or jobs, without reliable information about conditions on the ground.” Obtaining information about that is one of the aims of the “Academic Philosophy and Trans Identity Survey.” The research team behind the survey, Dan Hicks (University of California, Merced, USA), Catherine Stinson (Queen’s University, ON, Canada), Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics, UK), Ray Pedersen (University of Oxford, UK), and Sofie Vlaad (Queen’s University, ON, Canada) discuss the survey, which you may have received an invitation to complete, in the following guest post. Academic Philosophy and Trans Identity Survey by Dan Hicks, Catherine Stinson, Jingyi Wu, Ray Pedersen, & Sofie Vlaad Many readers of this blog have recently received an invitation to participate in the Academic Philosophy and Trans Identity Survey. Because we all receive many requests to participate in surveys, as the creators of this survey we wanted to write this blog post to explain our motivations and encourage participation. Debates over trans and nonbinary identities and the metaphysics of gender are less heated today in Anglophone philosophy than they were around 2019. But these issues have become even more socially salient and politically polarizing. State, provincial, and national policymakers in Canada, the UK, and US have pursued controversial proposals regulating access to gender affirming care, public bathrooms, and competitive sports. Philosophers have provided expert testimony and formal comments supporting or challenging definitions of gender. Many trans and nonbinary philosophers find themselves forced to make difficult decisions about where to apply for graduate school or jobs, without reliable information about conditions on the ground. We developed the Academic Philosophy and Trans Identity research survey to improve the profession’s understanding in three areas: The prevalence of trans and nonbinary individuals among academic philosophers; The distribution of philosophical views on the metaphysics of gender; and The local climate for trans and nonbinary individuals at institutions of higher education. After your responses are collected and analyzed, we plan to share our findings with a blog post here on Daily Nous, a..

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