I was just talking to a transgirl I know, and we both noticed her handwriting has always been very feminine (big loops and such), and she pointed out mine has always been pretty masculine (pointy, quick, messy), it got me wondering whether that was just a coincidence or if more transpeople (both ftm and mtf) have always had, or now have, a distinctly feminine/masculine handwriting.
And what that means, or does it even matter? And what makes a handwriting masculine/feminine, etc.?

I thought it might also be fun to write the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (or another one, if you like) and take a pic of it, so we can see each others handwriting
Here is mine;

I wish mine was more feminine, but when I write fast, it is not that good looking and it is pretty messy, but I am working on it.
BTW, I am left-handed, which must not be an excuse, but nevertheless, I write more beautifully than almost every lefty I know

I'm not putting up mine, it looks like chicken scratchings as I'm usually in a hurry when I write!
Given time, I can write neatly, but usually, no.

Mine has actually improved over the last few months, become much tidier and less scratchy.

Mine's pointy and narrow, but I think that's more from writing quickly than anything else.

I think there are general trends that can be seen between handwriting and gender, however there are always going to be exceptions. Anyway, here is my scrawl!



I haven't said what gender I identify with on here yet, so why not take a guess? I'd be interested to see whether people generally get it right or not.   

You mean you can write without a keyboard input device?!?!   

Mine has always been extremely messy. Esp. now that I rarely ever write anything besides my name and numbers by hand.

You can notice this masc/fem. difference in toddlers. By two, my daughter was writing her name and recognizable drawings. At 2, my son still scribbles messy circles. LOL.

My phone's camera sucks... O_o but this is my hand writing

Kade, your writing sample is making me hungry.

Quote from: JamesG on April 24, 2014, 06:42:49 AM
You mean you can write without a keyboard input device?!?!   

This!!!  I've filled out a few forms to change ID details but that's pretty much it since starting transition but as my job involves basically just coding I only rarely even see a pen, never mind actually use one!

My handwriting has sucked since birth, so I was thankful that computers were invented.

If you guys are doing a scientific(ish) experiment, you need a control group. Here's my (mostly) cisgendered gay male handwriting.

@Aquarelle, I actually think you have a very feminine and beautiful handwriting. Maybe because mine is so messy, lol. But I like the swirls! Maybe not the most usual female handwriting, but it looks too... ehh... 'flourishing'? to be male. (generally speaking, that is)

@NimeniJss, your handwriting strikes me as female too. I dunno why, I think because of the round angles and shapes.

@Kade, I WANT FREAKING CHEESE NOW! Lol XD Yknow your handwriting is exactly the same as my old physics teachers'. You're sure you're not just secretly him? (I hope not... lol)

@Dalebert, it would be cool to do a scientific experiment on this (though I am not a scientist, LOL!) Of course we can't right now, too few people, but yet it would be cool if we could see some sort of a coherence. (or lack thereof)
I always wondered... WHAT does one's handwriting REALLY say, if it even says anything?

But I wonder... isn't male/female handwriting more a matter of messy/tidy? Like... most girls put more effort into having a proper handwriting while guys don't care that much?

I don't know I have a tremor though it varies a lot depending on the day and my mood. On an okish day it looks like this (I am MAAB)



On a bad day it is hardly legible...

I get the feeling my generation has mostly bad handwriting though, lol, computers. My sister's is even sloppier and she doesn't have a tremor.

I do think a lot of it just comes down to caring.

My handwriting has always been atrocious.

Don't think it's necessarily a trans thing. Because I've been jealous of girls' handwriting since middle school, and trying actively to make mine more feminine, and consistently failing at it. I'm always like "HOW do you make your handwriting look that pretty? No fair!"

Quote from: Carrie Liz on April 24, 2014, 01:11:50 PM
Don't think it's necessarily a trans thing. Because I've been jealous of girls' handwriting since middle school, and trying actively to make mine more feminine, and consistently failing at it. I'm always like "HOW do you make your handwriting look that pretty? No fair!"

I kinda felt that way when I was younger cause my handwriting as a kid was SO horribad that my teachers could never read it

I have always had messy handwriting.  It looks like chicken scratch.  I used to write extremely small too in high school (to conserve paper).  I could fit 4-8 pages of notes on half a sheet of paper. 

Ooh...my turn, my turn!  I've got a couple more months before I can really get started in earnest on transition, so I figured handwriting was something I could work on now. So I've been practicing.  Here's my before and after.  What do you think?

Honestly, I find the idea of gendered writing to be a weird.  I mean can you really know someone's gender based on how they write?  Is there a male or female way to  express yourself in writing?  And does that only apply to hand writing as opposed to text?  I don't know, this sounds all too confusing to me.  I've noticed generalizations here and there about how the gender express themselves, but there is nothing really definitively different about how men and women write.  At least, I can't see it overall.