Tegan & Sara Foundation LGBTQ+ COVID-19 Research

In March, the Tegan and Sara Foundation launched a healthcare survey to understand experiences with the COVID-19 vaccine within the LGBTQ+ community. The survey was developed in collaboration with health communications firm Entree Health and reviewed by researchers at SurveyMonkey, a leader in agile software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback, with contributions from physicians and healthcare experts specializing in LGBTQ+ healthcare. 

The completely-confidential survey, developed with leading LGBTQ+ healthcare experts, was designed to be sensitive to the needs of the community. While current gender was asked in this survey, there was no question asking sex assigned at birth. These questions are often asked insensitively create unnecessary barriers for gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and transgender people. The survey did include 17 gender and sexual orientation choices, including the option to write-in or choose not to disclose. With the help of our community, we received 7,700+ responses.

To obtain a holistic understanding of the queer community, TSF we prioritized survey outreach and distribution to community-level organizations and underserved groups, to make sure that survey responses included the diverse voices of the LGBTQ+ community. We hope that LGBTQ+ people of all identities are able to see themselves in this data, and use it to start conversations and create change within their communities.