ChaCha.com: Remove Transphobic Misgendering Quiz From Their Site
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Created By
Penny Marie Sautereau
Surrey, Canada
http://www.change.org/petitions/chacha-com-remove-transphobic-misgendering-quiz-from-their-site (http://www.change.org/petitions/chacha-com-remove-transphobic-misgendering-quiz-from-their-site)
While browsing the web yesterday I stumbled across this quiz page.
http://www.chacha.com/topic/people/quiz/14/male-or-female (http://www.chacha.com/topic/people/quiz/14/male-or-female)
The quiz on that page is dismissive and demeaning to trans women. 8 of the 10 women pictured in the quiz are Transsexual Women. The key word there being WOMEN. Right from the start, the whole quiz is based on identifying "Fake" women by asking you to determined if the women you see are male or female.
I answered female to all 10, out of a morbid curiosity to see if this would follow the path I feared it would, and sadly, it didn't fail my expectations. When I scored two out of ten, I was greeted with this lovely transphobic garbage;
"You don't know Jack! (Or Jane!)"
"You're not good at pin pointing the exact gender of another questionable person - what's up with that? You don't know Jack about looking for the tell-tale signs of a man/woman! Brush up on your skills, buddy!"