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Sinistrallity. (Left handed?)

Started by pebbles, November 24, 2010, 06:07:14 PM

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Are you left handed?

I'm MTF Left-handed
19 (30.2%)
I'm MTF Right-handed
19 (30.2%)
I'm FTM Left-handed
4 (6.3%)
I'm FTM Right-handed
21 (33.3%)
I'm Cisgender Right-handed
0 (0%)
I'm Cisgender Left-handed.
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 46

pebbles

Of course the numbers are still low but at the moment. in the cisgender population you'd typically see a distribution of 1 lefty for every 9 right people.

individual population breakdowns at the moment.

42.3% Left
57.6% Right
Compared to the nominal distribution if that trend continues there would be a strong link that whatever makes MTF's also appears to increase the odds by 4 times that you would also be left handed.

12.5%
87.5%
In the FTM population there is no significant difference... If this trend continues it will be interesting as it would imply that FTM's are created through a fundamentally different developmental mechanism.
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heatherrose



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Aegir

FtM, right handed. Of course, I used to be ambidextrous but I mangled my left hand falling down the stairs in middle school, ever since then it's been awkward to do anything with it and I've been extremely right-hand dominant.
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GinaDouglas

You totally whiffed on this one, with regard to ambidextrousness.  Most people live in one side of their brain or the other, and have a low degree of ambidextrousness.  Women tend to use more of their off-side brain then men, and are more ambidextrous.  Most men can only blink one eye, and women can blink either; as well as use a mascara wand with both hands.

Then you have the question of how is the ambidextrousness accomplished.  For some people, the dominant brain-side works through the corpus colloseum to operate the body by enslaving the off-side brain, and for other people, both brains work together.  This has been studied extensively in golf, where there is a right-brain approach to golf and a left-brain approach to golf - and there is a strong component of amdixtrousness required.

There is also the issue of there being a gender compenant of right-brain or left-brain dominance.  Many people think men are more likely to be left-brain dominant, and women more likely to be right-brain dominant.

It's also complicated because of political-correctness.  Studying and theorizing in these areas are complicated by political-correctness landmines.

Finally, my opinion is that women are more likely to be right-brain dominant, and need to also cultivate left-brain skills; and thus have a higher degree of true (as opposed to slave) ambidextrousness.   In comparison, trans-people all lived for some time in the wrong gender, and had to (or try to) adapt.  Thus, all the factors that make women more truly ambidextrous apply to trans-people.  Furthermore, to learn new skills, we had to become more truly ambidextrous.  So, in my opinion, trans-people have a substantially higher level of genuine amidextrousness, and your survey is going to be out of whack because it doesn't consider ambidextrousness.



Trans people are more likely to have a higher
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E

I kinda agree with GinaDouglas - I mean, I can't write with my right hand, but other than that I'm pretty much functionally right-handed. I have worse strength and fine motor control in my left than in my right. I'm not truly ambidextrous, but I'm pretty damn sure I'm cross-dominant.

I can also switch which eye is dominant at will.
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BunnyBee

Quote from: pebbles on November 28, 2010, 07:10:53 AM
In the FTM population there is no significant difference... If this trend continues it will be interesting as it would imply that FTM's are created through a fundamentally different developmental mechanism.

Well maybe not fundamentally different.  If androgen levels in the womb is a factor, I wouldn't be surprised that the presence of too much androgen would affect things differently than not enough.

Anyway, interesting results so far, especially when you factor in the number of people claiming to have some amount of ambidexterity!
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Tad

Mom says I was likely going to be left handed.. but they forced me to be right handed. I'm relatively ambidextrous - but definately the right hand for writing and such.
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GinaDouglas

Quote from: E on November 28, 2010, 11:17:20 AM
I kinda agree with GinaDouglas - I mean, I can't write with my right hand, but other than that I'm pretty much functionally right-handed. I have worse strength and fine motor control in my left than in my right. I'm not truly ambidextrous, but I'm pretty damn sure I'm cross-dominant.

I can also switch which eye is dominant at will.

I broke my right arm, and by necessity had to write with my left, and can do so passably well now.
It's easier to change your sex and gender in Iran, than it is in the United States.  Way easier.

Please read my novel, Dragonfly and the Pack of Three, available on Amazon - and encourage your local library to buy it too! We need realistic portrayals of trans people in literature, for all our sakes
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Alex201

I'm FTM right handed. Writing with my left hand can be lethal  :P
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Nemo

Another lefty FTM here *waves* Although there are some things I do better with my right *shrug*


New blog in progress - when I conquer my writer's block :P
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