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I’d like to note that the current formulation of sex/gender/sexual orientation questions forced me to misrepresent myself because the technically correct answers seemed to cause an even greater misrepresentation. I would like extra options to the “sex assigned at birth” question, perhaps “male, now transitioned to female/other” and vice versa, to account for other-gendered transitioners; but I’ll be the first to admit that this probably isn’t a major issue.
I’m confused. If you were male at birth and transitioned to female, can’t you just answer the “sex assigned at birth” question male, and the gender question with “transgender m → f” ?
Well, that’s how I answered, but “other” would have been a more honest description of my gender. The question asked: “With what gender do you primarily identify?” and I don’t have a female identity, only what I can describe as a femininely androgynous body image (prompting transition treatments) and much heavier social dysphoria about being male’d than female’d, although the optimal no-mental-suffering-causing option would be to be recognized as non-binary. Answering “AMAB other homosexual” probably wouldn’t have had a statistically relevant effect but the possibility of being interpreted (even though realistically nobody would have cared about it in the anonymized answers) as a “male” genderqueer attracted to men was psychologically too painful.
Survey completed. Account created to get starting karma and increase likelihood/amount of future participation.
I’d like to note that the current formulation of sex/gender/sexual orientation questions forced me to misrepresent myself because the technically correct answers seemed to cause an even greater misrepresentation. I would like extra options to the “sex assigned at birth” question, perhaps “male, now transitioned to female/other” and vice versa, to account for other-gendered transitioners; but I’ll be the first to admit that this probably isn’t a major issue.
I’m confused. If you were male at birth and transitioned to female, can’t you just answer the “sex assigned at birth” question male, and the gender question with “transgender m → f” ?
Well, that’s how I answered, but “other” would have been a more honest description of my gender. The question asked: “With what gender do you primarily identify?” and I don’t have a female identity, only what I can describe as a femininely androgynous body image (prompting transition treatments) and much heavier social dysphoria about being male’d than female’d, although the optimal no-mental-suffering-causing option would be to be recognized as non-binary. Answering “AMAB other homosexual” probably wouldn’t have had a statistically relevant effect but the possibility of being interpreted (even though realistically nobody would have cared about it in the anonymized answers) as a “male” genderqueer attracted to men was psychologically too painful.