Practice

The Canadian Gender and Sex in Methods and Measures Research Equity Toolkit addresses the pervasive erasure in research of people who are marginalized and minoritized on the basis of their genders and sexes. This includes intersex, trans, nonbinary and Two-Spirit people, among others. Oftentimes, these communities are ignored by researchers or tacked onto existing research studies without carefully considering what inclusion means in terms of eligibility criteria, recruitment strategies, sample size requirements, stratification, survey design and a myriad of other steps in and elements of the research process.

The Canadian Research Equity Toolkit was launched as part of a CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair in Gender-Transformative Policy & Practice at UBC (PI: Dr. Kate Shannon) aimed at advancing more equitable gender research and practice in Canada. The toolkit aims to create best practice guidelines for researchers—from trainees to senior scholars—for building more equitable, reflective and inclusive research on sex and gender in methods and measurement. The Canadian Sex & Gender Research Equity Toolkit was created by a national advisory of 2S/LGBTQ methods experts and co-authorship team (Lead: Dr. A.J. Lowik).