I'm mostly left-handed with 1 maternal aunt and 2 paternal aunts.  My maternal aunt is lesbian.

Right-handed. I'm pretty much helpless if I'm allowed to use just my left hand.

That's interesting. I'm right-handed, but an unusual number of my family members are left-handed.

Right handed!

I'm right handed.

Years ago I conducted this research and found 30% of people were left handed.  The general population had 15% of genetic males are left handed.  Research has found left handed people are more prone to be Tg.  In fact in Europe 10% of Tg population tends to be mildly autistic.  I am also mildly autistic.  All my research to disprove I am TG has in fact supports my feelings.

I had a hypothesis that since more males are left handed than females I expected tg population to approach female left handedness which is 5% of general population. 

I have found that left handedness, mild autism, depression, anxiety,  abuse as a child, loneliness, ability to hide one's feelings were common place.  Some of older folks even got married and had children.

Actually FTM should not vote on separate survey. 

I have one aunt and no brothers or sisters. Dad is a lefty while mom is a righty. I am quasi-ambidexterous; I use my right hand for a lot of things but I also use my left hand to do certain things.

I'm right-handed but I don't feel that awkward using my left hand for a lot of things.

Quote from: wendy on January 01, 2012, 05:36:20 PM
left handedness, mild autism, depression, anxiety,  abuse as a child, loneliness, ability to hide one's feelings

Wow that fits me perfectly.

A few thoughts from this (mostly) left-handed person who has done some looking in to the research on handedness (laterality).

From the full population, if there is no cultural hostility to left-handedness and hasn't been for 2+ generations, about 10% of the population is left-handed.  It is, however, much more accurate to view handedness on a spectrum, rather than a binary matter.  Most left-handed people don't do absolutely everything left-handed (I throw right-handed, for instance), and even many right-handed people don't do everything that way either.

There does seem to be a genetic component, but it is neither terribly strong, nor is it simple like blue eyes vs. brown eyes.  Among lefties, left-handed women tend to be more strongly left-handed than leftie men.  There may be somewhat fewer (percentagewise) left-handed women than men.  It's debated as to whether this is nature or because of the acculturation of women.

Various realms of activity show increased fractions of lefties -- math, natural science, art, music, and sports.  The increase is higher the higher you go in each field, i.e., only somewhat over 10% at the undergraduate math level, high teens/low 20s for graduate students, mid-upper 20s for postdoctoral, and about 30% for the senior professional mathematicians.  30% seems the general highest level, and is also common to sports and science (at least). 

The preceding is why a particular study I read that claimed correlation between left-handedness and homosexuality was a piece of crap.  In order to have a large enough homosexual population to look in to handedness, the authors checked memebers of a lesbian volleyball league.  Found increased (over general population) percentage of lefties.  But they ignored entirely that the same thing would have happened if they'd checked a straights-only volleyball league.

i tend to be good with both, slightly better with right one (better writing mostly)

Predominately right handed with just a touch of ambidextrous trying to emulate my left handed mom.  Most TSs that I have met are righties. So far only 1 lefty

I can almost buy the stats indicating  that the ratio is different for TSs vs the general population. THat is a lot more plausible than transsexuals being predominately left handed.

I think the same rationale can also be applied to dyslexia. It seems like the majority of TS's I know are or believe they are, to some degree. How much vs the general population? I smell a Masters thesis 

Right-handed.
But there are some stuff I do - only - as a left-handed... throw/catch a ball, handle a broom/hockey stick/shovel.
(Eating with spoon, writing, drawing etc. - these all go by right hand.)

Only known left-handed was one of my grandmother's brother - but he was forced to use his left. (Till he fell down of a tree, ended up with a crippled right hand - so had to use the left, again.) I do not know about any left-handed, maybe they were all forced to use the other hand. Old, idiot habit.

im left handed

I suppose I'm right-handed, but I do a lot of stuff with my leftie as well (open bottles, use the knife), and I can write with both fairly well.

Definitely left handed although I do some things with my right hand...  The one that always made people laugh growing up was playing goalie in hockey with my glove on the right hand and stick in the left hand then play baseball (hate that sport) with the glove on my left hand and throw with my right. I'm left footed too. Do I get extra points???

I want to know what the distinctive ridged fingerprints are because I think that would be much much more telling because there are no socio-cultural impacts on fingerprints for most of us versus handedness where there is.

Both 

I'm left handed.

Left-handed

Quote from: pebbles on December 29, 2011, 06:06:29 AM
a predisposition as is discribed in the study isn't an absolute. while the sample size is still too small consider that in the wildtype population it's a 90/10 right handed slant. whereas these poll thus far shows somthing closer to a 50/50 split If we tested 1000 indivduals and it still came up 50/50 that would be considered very statistically significant trend even if it wasn't an absolute truth.

I agree. What it does highlight for me is that even on the forum polls the percentage of left-handers beats the 90/10 ratio. It looks like it will end up being a statistically significant correlation. The questions I have is in regard to left-handedness and transsexualism, but also handedness controlled for by sexual orientation.

We lefties are an interesting group. Something is going on, though no one has really pegged down what it means when handedness is correlated with seemingly unrelated features.