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Beyond the Binary: Expanding Our Categories of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
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| Linda Drach, Oregon Public Health Division, linda.drach@state.or.us
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| Kari Greene, Oregon Public Health Division, kari.greene@state.or.us
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| Abstract:
Often, the complex worlds of gender and sexuality are measured by a single item, with consequent assumptions made. We explore the expansion of these categories in Speak Out 2009, a survey of 843 sexual and/or gender minority individuals in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Speak Out offered 7 choices for sexual orientation, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer, and 7 choices for gender, including transgender, intersex, and genderqueer. The final Speak Out sample was notable because 6% identified as transgender, 7% identified as genderqueer, and, of those, all but one also identified as a sexual minority. The relatively large subsamples allowed us to examine the interaction of self-identified gender and sexual orientation across a number of health behaviors, health outcomes and related factors, as well as to explore multiple ways to categorize both gender and sexual orientation. Measurement issues and implications for evaluation practice will be discussed.
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Queering/ Querying Evaluation: Moving Beyond Political Correctness and the Binary State of Mind
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| Denice Cassaro, Cornell University, dac11@cornell.edu
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How to use evaluation and the evaluation process as a way to open dialogue and educate around issues of sexuality, sex and gender will be explored. I will illustrate how incorporating key concepts from queer, feminist, and critical race theories can provide an educational component (and maybe even a little subversiveness) into the evaluation process allowing for understandings of identities that go beyond binaries. The hope is to further efforts towards social justice with evaluation practice serving as a powerful medium.
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