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AornisHades

Lass I cannot get my head around only wearing stereotypically female clothing

You are being a bit hypocritical you know.

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How do I answer that one? Yes I wear comfy clothes from the men's department. Am I embarrased? No

You and Pom have been polite but it is just a teeny bit patronising to quiz me and ask for explanations, especially with such wide eyed astonishment, about my choices.

I took yours and similar comments at face value as simply showing how silly the question was. I didn't make any comments about your choice or say "I couldn't get my head round it ". I don't need to validate my preference by mocking someone else's.

Perhaps taking a moment to try to "get your head round" someone else's choices might be a good idea.

Everyone is transgender and they can prove it with this simple test!
See! They were right. Now take these dangerous drugs and sign up for surgery to get your breasts removed.

The targeting of young people from troubled family situations is particularly disturbing, since that's a vulnerable group to begin with. The people who create stuff like this are vultures.

I am female and came out medium to high risk! I did love playing with toy cars as a child

High risk is apparently due to parental childhood issues (crap situation at home, verbal and physical abuse/dv from father who then had an affair that he expected me to keep a secret. But it didn't make me want to be a boy )

And high risk for social issues... well my physical health is not good, which stops me doing stuff and makes me a bit isolated, which in turn has lead to MH problems too.

All pretty normal really.

But I definitely don't want to be a man! It is pretty scary that I got that result when I answered no to all the questions about wanting to act like a male.

Cross post Captain I agree with what you say.

For work dresses are just so convenient - no thought required at all and they come in a far wider range of materials suitable for all weather. I can't think of anything worse than jeans in the weather we have had over the last few days.

I came back as high risk, nope I’m just a lesbian. That is very scary!

I don't understand this "you need trousers for cold weather" thing. In cold weather I will wear a thick lined skirt or dress, thick tights and boots. Jeans and trousers aren't nearly as flexible as skirts or dresses. Denim is cold in winter and hot in summer. Tailored wool trousers are fine for weather suitable for tailored wool trousers.

Why do you think it is impossible to walk in flat shoes or flat boots? Sorry but that is just beyond weird.

I wear 80 denier tights with warm skirts or dresses when it’s cold and like Lass said, it’s shoes which are important for walking; you can still walk in a skirt! Why is it weird to not wear trousers? Like Lass, I hadn’t for years - I did buy some jeggings this year to try them out but for the past decade or more it’s been skirts and dresses only until then!

Lass I cannot get my head around only wearing stereotypically female clothing. I have a couple of dresses in my wardrobe for formal occasions. I can't see why you wouldn't have a pair of runners or trousers for occasions like cold weather or walking.

Lass sorry for pursuing your line of posting but...no trousers? Ever? Because they might be considered gender neutral?

I wore jeans occasionally from mid teens to early 20s and for a very brief period occasionally wore tailored trousers to work. I don't like trousers. I don't find them comfortable.

I haven't owned jeans in over 30 years and tailored trousers in over 25. I never liked wearing them.

Thanks for your response Lass
So you own no jeans, trainers, tshirts trousers, as they are gender neutral?

That's new to me. I just thought they were unisex stuff

Gender neutral / unisex - same difference. I wouldn't wear anything unisex.

So what would you class a gender-women clothes only? Do you purposely only dress in dresses, skirts, high heels/ballet pumps, blouses, to ensure you're not wearing anything that's gender neutral?

I don't often wear high heels but yes to everything else on that list. I don't have any clothes which a boy or a man would wear

Do you exercise? How do you escape gender neutral clothing in that instance

Nothing apart from lots of walking. You can walk wearing and flat boots or shoes you know.

I don’t own any jeans or trousers. Or shorts or jumpsuits! I only wear skirts and dresses. I dress in a very feminine way - make up, flowers in my hair, pink etc. I don’t think that is what makes me a woman though and I have no innate gender identity. I expect this test would find me non-trans. I still think it’s bollocks though! My femininity doesn’t define my sex, my body does.

Lass sorry for pursuing your line of posting but...no trousers? Ever? Because they might be considered gender neutral?

Thanks for your response Lass
So you own no jeans, trainers, t-shirts, trousers, as they are gender neutral?

That's new to me. I just thought they were unisex stuff.

As I own, and spend most of my time in those sort of clothes, would you class me as gender neutral? (I class myself as female, in every way, so it's interesting how others would read me!)

So what would you class a gender-women clothes only? Do you purposely only dress in dresses, skirts, high heels/ballet pumps, blouses, to ensure you're not wearing anything that's gender neutral?

Do you exercise? How do you escape gender neutral clothing in that instance.

I'm genuinely curious.

Sorry I didn't mean to copy and paste the whole thread !





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Yesterday 16:24 sawdustformypony

The answers given indicate a Low Risk of Gender Identity Disorder

Fucking Boss !

Yesterday 16:26 TheChampagneGalop

So many family questions! What do they have to do with anything? If you were raised by a single mum for example, does it make you more likely to be trans 

Yesterday 16:40 Jozxyqk

Medium to high risk of GID...

I ticked "no" for every single question specifically relating to trans issues. I am straight, happily married. However I have an alcoholic father, history of depression, I'm an introvert, blah blah blah. AFAI can see most of the "positive indicators" I ticked relate to mental health & family situation as a child. So... the counsellor I saw as a teenager would now be referring me for suspected GID because I had depression & a father who hit me when I got in the way of the drinks cabinet? Great. 

Yesterday 16:45 Jozxyqk

That's a point - I thought many trans activists were now arguing that trans genderism is inherent, that a person is born with it? Why all the questions about family situation? If, however, it's down to family situation, presumably that means it's a stress response & would respond to therapy / counselling? Not surgery?

Yesterday 16:47 ErrolTheDragon

Around the time of the original Spartacus threads (a couple of years ago) someone posted a link to a similar test. Does anyone remember it?

I CBA with this one if it even thinks 'Interests of the Opposite Gender' is a thing. The other one was a load of gender stereotypical bollocks ... IIRC nearly everyone came out as some sort of manly on account of not being afraid of a bit of maths

Yesterday 16:54 karyatide

All the questions about background remind me of the homophobic beliefs and myths that were trotted out so frequently back in the 80s, you know that gay men were gay because of absent fathers and overbearing mothers, and lesbians were lesbians due to molestation.

Yesterday 16:58 SuperDandy

Total load of shite. It's a classic lead tripwire. Don't be surprised if you clicked through and now start seeing ads for therapists, counselling etc.

This is broad cast-your-net marketing for a shabby collection of therapists who are very much not specialist. If you look at any of their 200 odd "self-tests" they are equally ridiculous.

I really wouldn't read too much into it. You could find similarly awful quiz style tests on any topic you like. No one with an ounce of sense gives them a second thought, and the only objective is to grab up a few highly priced sessions with therapists who are too crap or too lazy to build a client base in more legitimate ways.

Yesterday 17:24 ClownStar

Mmm, I do get that Dandy but teenagers struggling with their sense of self aren't renowned for having more than an ounce of sense. Presumably there are plenty of vulnerable people out there who DO act on these quizzes, otherwise the marketers wouldn't bother.

Yesterday 17:53 Prawnofthepatriarchy

I'm Medium Risk. I suspect any feminist answering these questions is likely to be at risk using their criteria.

I got a nasty feeling about all those questions about single parents, absent fathers, etc. It's exactly the same way of looking at gender that's applied to sexual orientation by Evangelical Christians. They taught - still do - that being gay was caused by problems boys had with their fathers and male role models. Sinister non scientific, irresponsible stuff.

Yesterday 17:55 SuperDandy

That's very true Clown, and I'd love to see them all shut down. This particular one is US based and I think their regulator you bodies on therapy and counselling have even fewer teeth the the UK does.

I despise organisations that take advantage of gullibility or weakness, no matter what groups they do it to. They usually don't discriminate who they will try to manipulate, and this lot are a perfect example of trying every weak spot they can think of to see which one sticks.

Yesterday 23:09 LassWiADelicateAir

The answers given indicate a Low Risk of Gender Identity Disorder

That is what I got too but you omitted the caveat

but talking to a licensed professional is the only way to be sure, and is the best way to help you resolve any issues you are going through

And I am according to my husband the most girly girl he's ever met (and no he wasn't being patronising- it was a jokey response to my horror at something to do with gender neutral clothes)

Yesterday 23:11 Bespin

Wow shite like this is still going I have not seen one of these since the 90s usually one of the questions is basically are you trans lol

Yesterday 23:14 NotMeOhNo

I think the family questions are to groom unhappy teenagers. It's a clear recruitment tactic to the cult.

Yesterday 23:59 LassWiADelicateAir

The family questions were so loaded

" did you come from a broken home". I was brought up by twice divorced mother and my grandfather and I'm sure I was supposed to answer "yes" but there was nothing broken about it.

Today 00:01 SpartacusVonWaitrose

Medium to high risk. Hilarious!

Today 00:11 LassWiADelicateAir

I'm stuck on question 1: "Do you like wearing the opposite sex’s clothes, but would be embarrassed if anyone were to see you?"

I got stuck on that one but for a different reason. It is impossible results for me to answer because of the 2 separate parts.

^Do you like wearing the opposite sex’s clothes?", No, I never wear the opposite sex's clothes and I'd hate it.

but would be embarrassed if anyone were to see you? well yes, I would be uncomfortable and embarrassed in masculine.

So what should my correct answer be?

Today 00:14 JadziaSnax

Medium to high risk too. I work in IT, do DIY and used to repair my bike and cars. This is using outdated stereotypes and is pure nonsense.

Erm Lass - what do you define the 'opposite sex's' clothes

If we're talking 'male sterotypical clothes', what are they?

Jeans?

T-shirts?

Trainers?

Brogues?

Trousers?

Shirts?

I don't own any of those. Those are gender neutral clothes. I don't wear anything which is gender neutral.

AornisHades

1)Do you like wearing the opposite sex’s clothes, but would be embarrassed if anyone were to see you?

How do I answer that one? Yes I wear comfy clothes from the men's department. Am I embarrased? No

I see several posters were stumped by that question although for the other way round than for my answers.

Erm Lass - what do you define the 'opposite sex's' clothes.

If we're talking 'male sterotypical clothes', what are they?

Jeans?

T-shirts?

Trainers?

Brogues?

Trousers?

Shirts?

I'm struggling to think of male-bodied stereotypical clothes that most of us would shudder to wear - other than maybe a three-piece suit, though I've seen some amazing females rocking that look, but still very clearly females!

What strict sex-stereotypical clothes are you being confined to, in that you'd 'hate' wearing the opposite-sex's clothes.

Medium to high risk too. I work in IT, do DIY and used to repair my bike and cars. This is using outdated stereotypes and is pure nonsense.

I'm stuck on question 1: "Do you like wearing the opposite sex’s clothes, but would be embarrassed if anyone were to see you?"

I got stuck on that one but for a different reason. It is impossible results for me to answer because of the 2 separate parts.

^Do you like wearing the opposite sex’s clothes?", No, I never wear the opposite sex's clothes and I'd hate it.

but would be embarrassed if anyone were to see you? well yes, I would be uncomfortable and embarrassed in masculine.

So what should my correct answer be?

Medium to high risk. Hilarious!

The family questions were so loaded

" did you come from a broken home". I was brought up by twice divorced mother and my grandfather and I'm sure I was supposed to answer "yes" but there was nothing broken about it.

I think the family questions are to groom unhappy teenagers. It's a clear recruitment tactic to the cult.

Wow shite like this is still going I have not seen one of these since the 90s usually one of the questions is basically are you trans lol

The answers given indicate a Low Risk of Gender Identity Disorder

That is what I got too but you omitted the caveat

but talking to a licensed professional is the only way to be sure, and is the best way to help you resolve any issues you are going through

And I am according to my husband the most girly girl he's ever met (and no he wasn't being patronising- it was a jokey response to my horror at something to do with gender neutral clothes)