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“I found myself, and then I could breathe.”

Understand your gender identity: test, 138 identities, and guides

Take a 20-question test, explore 138 gender identities, and understand what actually separates one from another.

Wherever you are in this.

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20 questions about how you actually feel. It hands back words that sound like your experience.

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Explore identities

138 words, each explained plainly: what it means, what it doesn’t, and who tends to feel at home in it.

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Agender or neutrois? Genderfluid or genderflux? Two words side by side, so you can feel which one is closer.

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Every path starts with one question.

20 questions, four minutes, no account needed. It suggests. You decide.

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A shortlist, not a verdict.

Nothing here can know your gender. What it can do is listen to what you said, notice who else has said something similar, and hand you the words worth reading next.

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  1. 01

    Answer 20 questions

    Short, concrete prompts about how you feel in your body, in language, in clothes and in groups. No trick questions.

  2. 02

    We listen for six things

    How steady it feels, how strongly, how it sits with your body, with words, with other people. Six threads, kept separate.

  3. 03

    You get a shortlist

    Not one answer. A handful of words that sound like what you described, and why each one turned up.

  4. 04

    You read and decide

    Every suggestion links to a full guide so you can check it against your own life. The label is always your call.

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Four things people mix up.

Gender identity is your internal sense of your own gender — not your body, not your clothes, not who you love. Almost every argument about gender starts by confusing these four.

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Gender identity
Your internal sense of your own gender. Only you have access to it, and it can stay the same your whole life or shift over time.
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Gender expression
How you present outwardly — clothes, hair, voice, body language. Expression often signals identity, but it does not define it.
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Sex assigned at birth
A label given by a doctor based on visible anatomy. It is a starting point on a form, not a conclusion about who you are.
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Sexual orientation
Who you are attracted to. Entirely separate from gender identity, though the two are frequently confused.
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Every flag we could verify.

See all 37 flags

Transgender

Non-Binary

Genderfluid

Agender

Demigender

Bigender

Genderqueer

Xenogender

Neutrois

Questioning

Intergender

Two-Spirit

The questions people actually ask.

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Asked often,
answered plainly.

Questions our readers send us most. Nothing dressed up, nothing dodged.

What is gender identity?+

It is the sense you have of your own gender from the inside — man, woman, both, neither, or something with no tidy name. It is not the same as the body you were born with, and not the same as who you fall for.

Is gender identity the same as sexual orientation?+

No. Gender identity is about who you are; sexual orientation is about who you are drawn to. A trans woman can be straight, lesbian, bisexual or asexual — the two are independent of each other.

Can an online test tell me my gender?+

No test can. What ours does is listen to your answers and point you to people who describe something similar, so you have words to try on. It suggests. You decide.

What if none of the labels feel right?+

That is a common and completely valid outcome. Labels are tools, not verdicts. Many people sit with 'questioning' for months or years, and some never adopt a label at all.

Is the test anonymous?+

Yes. No account, no email, no tracking of your answers. Your results live in your browser and disappear when you clear it.

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Not sure where you fit?

That's exactly what this is for. Twenty questions, four minutes, no account — and a reading list at the end instead of a label you didn't choose.

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    Written, reviewed and corrected by people living it.

  • Always evolving

    Language changes. Guides are updated as we learn.