I can see how it would be relevant for a sexual orientation question if you don't subscribe to binary gender - l/g/b implies a binary, which doesn't work for everyone, so a transgender option at least gives those people something to check - but it is certainly not *ideal*, because, like you said, it implies that transgender is a sexual orientation, and it lumps all trans people together in a separate category whether they identify with a binary gender or not. Neither of which are true.
(And you'd think an LGBT advocacy group that was actually concerned about people who don't identify as male xor female would be at least as interested in getting more than two options for gender on the form as they are in a sexual orientation question. Possibly more interested, since everybody already gets the gender question on the short form. And yet they do not seem to be.)
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Date: 2010-03-12 06:14 pm (UTC)(And you'd think an LGBT advocacy group that was actually concerned about people who don't identify as male xor female would be at least as interested in getting more than two options for gender on the form as they are in a sexual orientation question. Possibly more interested, since everybody already gets the gender question on the short form. And yet they do not seem to be.)