Kelley Winters, Ph.D.
The Transgender Research Informed Consent (TRICON) disclosure policy was developed by administrators of the International Transgender Health Forum in 2019 to:
Empower Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) community members to make informed decisions on participation in research studies, within a historical context of decades of research that is all too often biased, defamatory, misgendering, exploitive, or non-consensual. Moreover, these disclosures give exemplary research teams an opportunity to show off their cultural competence on TGD research issues and set positive examples for other scholars.
TRICON consists of ten disclosure questions, to be repeated an answered by investigators of research on TGD populations in all announcements, communication, and social media posts that solicit study participants. These questions were updated in 2022 to improve clarity, press for transparency on inclusion of TGD scholars in IRB and research oversight, and add a new line item on consensual participation in research, without unethical coercion.
The current TRICON policy document is available here and may be freely shared and adopted as policy by academic and clinical institutions and practices, everywhere:
The Transgender Research Informed Consent (TRICON) Disclosure Policy by Kelley Winters, Antonia Elle D’orsay, Vreer Sirenu, and AR Con, administrators of the International Transgender Health Forum, is licensed under Creative Commons, CC BY 4.0. We encourage all institutions conducting research on Trans and Gender-Diverse populations and all organizations that serve TGD communities to adopt the TRICON disclosure policy, with CC attribution to the original authors.
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