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About the Survey

The 2025 Michigan Trans Survey is the second-iteration of the inaugural Michigan Trans Health Survey. Read more about this community-led survey, below, and consider sharing with your networks (survey info kit).

Eligibility

To be eligible for the survey, you must be:

• transgender, nonbinary, gender diverse, agender, gender queer, Two-Spirit, a person of trans experience, or another non-cisgender identity
• live in Michigan
• 18 years or older

What to expect

The expected time to complete the survey is 45 minutes. Of the respondents, 50 will be selected for a $50 gift card sponsored by the University of Michigan.  Questions about the survey? Please reach out to Dr. Shanna Katz Kattari via their email at skattari@umich.edu.

Backstory

The Michigan Trans Health Survey is a collaboration between Dr. Shanna Kattari (a nonbinary health scholar from the University of Michigan School Social Work and Dept of Women’s & Gender Studies) and trans/gender diverse community partners at Transcend the Binary. Findings will help us better understand the current health and health care experiences of trans and gender diverse folks in Michigan, as well as provide data for advocacy at the state, local, and insurance level. You can read more about the inaugural survey as well as check out the full report based on the 2018 findings. The University of Michigan IRB deemed the study exempt. 

The project aims to: 

• Understand and compare the  comprehensive, baseline report of trans/nonbinary health in the state.
• Assess barriers and facilitators to care, including self-reported physical and mental health, provider inclusivity, preventative health screenings (e.g., STI/HIV testing) and PrEP, interpersonal and intimate partner violence, substance use, and more.
• Inform policymakers, healthcare providers, health educators, researchers, and public health professionals.

Significance or Impact

The MTHS (2018) was the first-of-its-kind in the state of Michigan. Prior to this survey, there was no known state-specific survey taking a comprehensive look at the health of transgender and nonbinary individuals, making it difficult to share numbers and the need for support and better training with providers or to advocate in Lansing for policy change. What we hope that by better understanding barriers to care and health access needs of trans/gender diverse Michiganders, we can inform policy improvements, provider training, and ultimately increase access to affirming care.

Community-Engaged Research

The concept originated with trans/nonbinary academic researchers and Transcend the BInary was engaged as a co-collaborator in survey development and refinement. We thank the countless members of our trans/nonbinary community who were involved throughout the survey review, revision, and cognitive interviewing. 

Study Sponsors