Quote from: ♡ Emily ♡ on August 28, 2014, 03:11:03 PM
Yet, the type which comprises about 10% of cis-women (and is also more represented among women than men) is severely underrepresented here. I wonder, how many tried to take this test again after being on the HRT for a time being and whether their results changed?
I won't get into nature vs. nurture debates for personality type, because I think it's hard to empirically make an exclusive case either way, but my own type was very much fixed before any transition or HRT. It's been exactly the same on 9 out of 10 tests I've taken, and only one variable different the time it was not. At least by the time one is mature, I don't think one's inherent personality continues to change.
The topic of differences in MBTI type of cis/trans individuals is more interesting, and it's good that you brought it up, Emily. We have, for instance, almost no ESFJs or ESTJs here - but also, we lack a statistical gender survey of who all chose what type in this particular poll, so it's difficult to come to firm conclusions except to say that we have fewer Creators (SP) and Protectors (SJ), but more Intellectuals (NT) and Visionaries (NF).
Note also that your personality type is actually a function - it is not just a bunch of letters. Those letters interact. If you're an INFJ, your primary function is Introverted Intuition. That's the basic way you want to interact with the world. Your secondary function is Extroverted Feeling. That enhances your intuition and those two functions catalyze in your favor like dynamite & gasoline. Your tertiary function is Introverted Thinking, which is like a check & balance to your other functions but you use it less passively than your first two functions. Your inferior function is Extraverted Sensing, which more or less grounds you in the world, but doesn't really serve you unless you specifically call upon its use.
There are also shadow functions which are a mirrored inverse of your personality type which you exude in a linear order based on your level of stress. Everyone has a mirror type with whom their functions are palendrome opposites, as well as a type whose function orders are one another's shadow-function orders. Any given type's aversion to specific functions can make it difficult to feel much in common with any given other person. (For instance, as an INFJ living with an ISTJ let's say I am driven mad by her mundane use of the primary Introverted Sensing function, and that my Extraverted Feeling function makes it really hard dealing with an INFP friend who secludes herself and rarely converses because her overactive Introverted Feeling makes her needlessly self-critical when she could open up and I would help her without the least bit of judgment or selfishness.)
If nothing else, people with similar primary through tertiary functions tend to find it easy to see the world in similar ways.
