Take the Gender Identity Disorder self test!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

The answers given indicate a Low Risk of Gender Identity Disorder

Fucking Boss !

Phew! I got

The answers given indicate a Low Risk of Gender Identity Disorder.

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.

What's with all the questions about broken homes / missing father figures, though? Is there a known connection between these factors and transgenderism?

Yes Roger - the question about feeling excited when wearing "opposite sex clothing" in secret - straight out of an AGP handbook

I wear a lot of "opposite sex" clothing - I'm not excited by it, I don't wear it in secret, it's just clothing.

What a load of bollocks.

The questions can be summed up as

(a) do you like doing manly/womanly (sterotypically obviously ) things; and
(b) do you have psychological problems, difficulties in daily living, suffer from stress or depression, are you a victim of violence or abuse.... and so on.

So if you are unhappy/stressed/feel like a misfit, you are directed to changing "gender" as an answer.

ffs

Another medium-to-high risker here. Well golly gosh.

I got Low risk, because I answered No to everything. But I should still see a counsellor to make sure............

littlbrowndog surely we can learn to accept you here at MN?

Well that was a whole load of soon to be detatched bollocks.
Medium to high - introvert, family fucked up, wear "men's" clothes, love lego, have interest in anatomy.

The answers given indicate a High Risk of Gender Identity Disorder

Aye, right babe.

I got medium. Load of ladybollox.

Did anyone else feel that quite a few of the questions were focussing in the AGP aspects of trans (which we are routinely told on this board is ridiculous to want to to talk about)?

I got low to medium risk
Feck
Does this mean I get sent to netmums

I got medium risk.
Loaded questions mostly.

I got High Risk! Do I get to be brave and stunning now?

Really though, I shouldn’t be flip. this is pretty horrifying.

I am high risk on that test and it tells me I’m transsexual

Nope.

The new astrology, only in this version you meet a tall dark stranger that recommends you lop your breasts off and sterilise yourself.

(and to anyone with an itchy reporting finger I have had a hysterectomy and will refer to it as “being sterilised” IF I DAMN WELL PLEASE. So don’t bother.)

Ooh, high risk. Although almost all the questions I answered which would have given rise to that stemmed from my ASD.

DJLippy and Apollo I think that is the logical conclusion, yes. Now that transgender is a wide umbrella, on the Stonewall definition it means "not comfortable with the social stereotypes associated with your birth sex" that means every radical feminist is in fact trans.

Perhaps we should start using LGBTTQQIAP2+ with the extra T for Terf in recognition of this.