In retrospect it was probably a bad idea to fill the write-in gender field with "a screaming void" on the HIV survey someone from King County gave me yesterday, but I honestly couldn't think of another answer that didn't feel gross on some axis.
Also the survey taker was clearly stumbling over language and was painfully trying to avoid saying the word "genderqueer". I reassured her that saying the word was okay, really.
TBH I was kinda tempted to not take the survey out of annoyance with how little she'd practiced basic language, but I decided to anyway both for public health data and because I'm really fucking glad they're no longer lumping trans women under MSM.
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Also the survey taker was clearly stumbling over language and was painfully trying to avoid saying the word "genderqueer". I reassured her that saying the word was okay, really.
TBH I was kinda tempted to not take the survey out of annoyance with how little she'd practiced basic language, but I decided to anyway both for public health data and because I'm really fucking glad they're no longer lumping trans women under MSM.