Table 3.
Sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions used in cognitive interviews
| Gender identity question stems |
| What is your gender? |
| What is your gender identity? |
| What is your current gender? |
| What is your current gender identity? |
| Gender identity answer choices |
| Female |
| Male |
| Woman |
| Man |
| Transgender female (MTF) |
| Transgender male (FTM) |
| Transgender woman (MTF) |
| Transgender man (FTM) |
| Gender non-conforming |
| Questioning/unsure |
| Other: [free-text field] |
| Decline to state |
| Sex assigned at birth question stems |
| What sex were you assigned at birth? |
| What sex were you assigned at birth, meaning on your original birth certificate? |
| Sex assigned at birth answer choices |
| Female |
| Male |
| Intersex |
| Decline to state |
| Sexual orientation question stems |
| What is your sexual orientation? |
| Which of the following best represents how you identify? |
| Regardless of your sexual experience, what is your sexual identity or orientation? |
| How do you currently identify your sexual orientation, regardless of if you are sexually active? |
| Sexual orientation answer choices |
| Straight, heterosexual |
| Straight |
| Heterosexual |
| Lesbian, gay, same-gender attraction |
| Lesbian |
| Gay |
| Same-gender attraction |
| Bisexual |
| Queer |
| Pansexual |
| Asexual, demisexual, graysexual |
| Questioning/unsure |
| Other: [free-text field] |
| Decline to state |