Protocol Language | |
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Exclusive & Gender Specific Language |
Inclusive & Gender Neutral Language |
“Inclusion criterion: male or female adults” |
“Inclusion criterion: adult persons of any sex and gender” |
“Women of childbearing potential must use contraception…” |
“Persons who are having sexual relationships in which they may become pregnant must use contraception…” |
“All males must use contraception…” |
“Persons who are having sexual relationships in which their partner may become pregnant…” -OR- “Sperm-producing persons in a sexual relationship with someone who could become pregnant…” |
Informed Consent Language | |
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Exclusive & Gender Specific Language |
Inclusive & Gender Neutral Language |
“If you are a woman of child-bearing potential, you must use two forms of birth control” |
“If you are able to become pregnant, and having sexual relationships in which you may become pregnant, you must use two forms of birth control” |
“All males must use contraception” |
“Persons who are having sexual relationships in which their partner may become pregnant…” -OR- “Sperm-producing persons in a sexual relationship with someone who could become pregnant…” |
“The investigator and his/her team” |
“The investigator and their team” |
“Each study participant must allow access to his/her medical records” |
“Each study participant must allow access to their medical records” |
Data Collection Forms (demographic data) | |
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Exclusive & Gender Specific Language |
Inclusive & Gender Neutral Language |
“Gender: male/female” |
“Sex assigned at birth: Male/female Current Gender: male/female/non-binary Sexual Orientation: Lesbian, gay or homosexual/straight or heterosexual/ bisexual/ something else/don’t know”* |
* Suggested demographic data options are from the New Patient Registration Form, Fenway Health, Boston, MA with slight modifications. https://fenwayhealth.org/info/services/forms/.
Source: Members of WCG ALIVE (Advocates for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion, Visibility and Empowerment), Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, WCG chief medical officer, https://bit.ly/3HCYIVN.