Self-Studies

2006 Self-Study: Demographics

Questions:
  • Do you self-identify as a person of color?
  • What is your ethnicity/race?
  • Do you self-identify as transgender?
  • What is your gender identity?
  • What is your sexual orientation?
  • What is your age?

Do you self-identify as a person of color?
N=96
Yes = 17, 17.7%
No = 79, 82.3%
Did not answer N=5

What is your ethnicity/race?
N=96

Data:

Latina x 3
Mexican American
Mexican/Latino
Mixed: Latino/Caucasian
Biracial- half Cuban, half White (I identify as Latina)
Filipino/Mexican/Japanese
Japanese/Caucasian
Asian-American
Asian-American East Indian
Asian
African American
Black x 2
Melungeon, a tri-racial isolate based in SE Kentucky
Multiethnic
Multiracial
European/Native American
White and Native American
White, some Native American
Caucasian/Jewish
White/Jewish
White and Middle Eastern
White (Lebanese and French Canadian descent)
White, French Canadian, Western European Descent
Caucasian/Eastern European
White, North American and Spanish
European American / White
White
White/Caucasian
Caucasian
European
European descent
European American
Euro-American
White European
White, English
[all other responses are repetitions of White, Caucasion, European, etc.]

Do you self-identify as transgender?
N=98
Yes = 7, 7.1%
No = 91, 92.9%
Did not answer N=3

What is your gender identity?
N=98
Female/Woman/Womyn used in answer = 51, 52%
Male/Man used in answer = 35, 35.7%
Genderqueer used in answer = 7, 7.1%
Transgender/Trans used in answer = 4, 4.1%
Androgynous used in answer = 2, 2%
Queer used in answer = 2, 2%
Variant used in answer = 2, 2%
Other words used: Dyke, Feminist, non-normative

Data:

Transgender x 2
Trans x 2
Genderqueer x 4
Genderqueer/Variant/Womyn
Female/Gender Queer
Gender Variant (or non-normative)
Female/Femme/Gender Queer
Woman/Dyke/Queer
Queer Feminist
Androgynous x 2
Female x 38
Woman x 9
Male and I identify as a man
Male x 31
Man x 3

What is your sexual orientation?
N=97

Bi/Bisexual used in answer = 12, 12.4%
Gay used in answer = 28, 28.9%
Heterosexual/Straight used in answer = 6, 6.2%
Lesbian used in answer = 36, 37.1%
Queer used in answer = 26, 26.9%
Other: Dyke, Homosexual

Data:

Bi x 2
Bisexual x 7
Bisexual/Queer
Gay x 26
Gay Male x 2
Heterosexual x 2
Straight x 4
Homosexual (culturally a Lesbian)
Lesbian x 26
Lesbian/Queer x 6
Queer/Lesbian/Dyke
Dyke/Queer
Lesbian/Bi/Queer
Lesbian identified bisexual
Queer x 16

What is your age?
N=77
Mean age = 38.5 years

25-29 years = 12
30-34 years =17
35-39 years = 18
40-44 years = 11
45-49 years = 10
50 years and above = 9