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Part of science is understanding the context of the question you are asking. This involves at least a literature review, but I imagine that for controversial social topics that are currently in flux, it might also involve more direct methods (e.g. qualitative analysis of social media, but I can't say for sure since my field is in the biological sciences and not sociology). The framing of the questions in this survey suggests that the investigators do not really understand the totality of the gender critical perspective, i.e. how someone can both identify as a leftist and be critical of trans ideology. (For the record I am not a leftist and not a radical feminist, so I'm probably more of what the investigators have in mind, but I find it profoundly problematic that they have failed to perceive one entire wing of the gender critical movement, exactly the wing that is going to negate the hypothesis being tested.)