Quote from: Rachael on August 12, 2007, 02:14:22 AM
hmm, this test is crud, half the answers i didnt want to give. and it gave no answer that i found suitable. most of it assumed either you were a non trans member of one sex, a bat->-bleeped-<- crazy ->-bleeped-<-, a gender bender, or somewhere near androgyne. i felt it was limiting and confuseing.
R 
I can understand why someone might think this, especially if I had thought that the test was going to have been another version of the COGIATI or some softball items that I would have to be a moron in order to not score where I wanted to score.
To tell the truth, Kate devised something I found DID make me think. Yes, some of the questions were circular and even ridiculous. That is the norm for any sort of test of this sort. There are throwaway answers and answers that test my ability to lie well on any profile test I am likely to take.
What I found though, was that I, like Tink, had moved from well gendered (5 or so years ago) to gender outlaw. Hmm, what occurred? I suspect it was the realization that I do not have to answer the right questions any more to show that I am a woman. I just show up and that takes care of itself.
Not only can that be liberating for me; I imagine it is liberating for those I interact with as well.
One of the most curious syndromes I have seen in the TS community is how we often tend to join our own little branch of the gender police once we feel secure in our presentation. Yet, I imagined some doubts often remain and we feel more comfortable with a COGIATI test that allows us to express all the normal stereotypical answers we imagine everyone wants to hear if they are going to accept the validity of what we do/have done.
That may be a simplistic analysis, but I find it the most likely explanation of myself.
