The EU want to hear from genderfree people

[GassyAss]

And any others under the trans umbrella. Here’s the link to the survey. www.lgbtisurvey.eu/lgbti/?campaign_id=154&utm_source=EPOA&utm_medium=orgs&utm_campaign=EPOA_orgs_INTL

Well that was interesting.

First question: what sex were you assigned at birth?
I wrote: Sex correctly ID, not assigned.

Not enough characters to explain properly, unfortunately.

Wow, our wonderful Somerville has quietly gently started quite a revolution!

That was scientifically quite off course...

‘Observed female, not assigned)

'sex observed & recorded female' fitted ...

Filled it in ‘identifying’ myself as agender cos what does this mean? I don’t ‘identify’ with Barbie or GI Joe and my only ‘identity’ is as me so I guess I am agender like almost everyone else I know.

I couldn't get passed a question asking when I first realised I was transgender (I'm not, and never said I was).

I hope they're collecting partial answers

I wish they’d ask women how many times in the past 5 years they’d been abused or harassed. Thing is they already know and don’t do anything about it .

I also wrote sex observed not assigned. And that I identify as gender free.

I started filling in as an observed female, genderfree person. But gave up when it asked about whether I dressed as my gender. I'm not sure how you dress as genderfree.

If you persist to the end there's a space to give a greater account of your experiences. I told them of the abuse I've received for not believing in gendered souls.

i used to argue that, as I am a woman, anything i do is what a woman does. So now, I can argue that as I am genderfree, everything i wear is what genderfree people wear, non?

Think - if you press "forward" without selecting an answer, some sort of "don't know" or "prefer not to say" option generally becomes available.

Have you undergone any kind of intervention to change your body so it better matches your gender identity?

I had a (gender conforming) haircut last week. Does that count?

Done. Pah.

I'm not sure how you dress as genderfree

You wear what you want when you want.

I put in the free text box that my genderfree status hasn't been the cause of any discrimination against me but because my sex is female, I am discriminated against for that reason.

Have they EVER done a survey like this for women?

I notice it's LGBTi now. The i being intersex. I thought people of intersex had specifically asked not to be lumped under the trans umbrella.

I failed because it asked me how I’d describe myself and I selected “woman”. It did not ask me about my socially constructed gender. Damn the bloody EU and its correct distinction between sex and gender.

There is a bit where it asked if you've been abused, followed etc for any reason so I answered yes then it asked if it was because I'm genderfree so I put no. It's not completely obvious that I meant sexual harassment but better than just asking if it's from being genderfree and me just answering no

I consider myself agender /genderfree and these nasty TRAs keep trying to oppress me by saying if I want any protections against the challenges and discrimination I face due to my biological sex I need to publicly identify as the gender associated with it. Why won't they let me be my authentic self?

The term trans is used in this survey as a broad umbrella term that includes all those who are transgender, non-binary, gender variant, polygender, agender, gender-fluid, cross dressers, transsexual, or men and women with a transsexual past, and other terms.

Why are crossdressers included?

I couldn't get passed a question asking when I first realised I was transgender (I'm not, and never said I was)

I said 12 years old - because I first had my hair cut short then, and instantly felt fully myself, as a gender-free person. After that there was no going back.