Gender identity test Forty-eight questions.
Ten minutes. Yours.
Call it a test or a quiz: one statement per screen. At the end: all 136 identities, ranked by how closely each one fits you.
- Free
- No account
- Nothing is sent
Four parts. Twelve statements each.
A change of scene every twelve, and a breath between them. Every part measures all six dimensions: the scenes are the rhythm, not the subject.
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Where you start
The plain facts, before anyone else gets a say: the word you were given, which way you lean, how much is there.
Twelve statements - 2
In the mirror
Body, voice, name, and what you find when you go looking on your own.
Twelve statements - 3
Out in the world
Forms, strangers, rooms full of people, and what being read right or wrong does to a day.
Twelve statements - 4
The long view
Last winter, ten years from now, and the questions that have only one honest answer.
Twelve statements
Three steps. No sign-up.
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Answer the statements
Forty-eight of them in four parts, eight for each dimension. How true is each one of you? One tap, seven shades from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”.
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See your shape
Your answers become six scores: alignment, direction, the binary, stability, intensity, expression.
- 3
Read your shortlist
All 136 identities, ranked by fit. The top one is a suggestion; the near-misses matter just as much.
The whole result. Free.
- Your closest match
With the reasons it might not be you.
- Your six scores
Each from 0 to 100, with what the two ends mean.
- Your shortlist
The five identities nearest your answers, with a % for each.
- The guides
A full page on every one of the 138 identities, to check against your own life.
it suggests — you decide
Six things we listen for.
Forty-eight first-person statements, each on a seven-point scale from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”. They cover six dimensions of how you experience gender.
Alignment
Whether the word you were handed at birth is still the right word. Not how you feel about the rules bolted on to it — the word itself.
Diverges from what you were assignedMatches what you were assignedDirection
Which way your gender leans, if it leans at all. The middle is a real place: neither, both, or not on that line. Some identities don't use this axis.
Towards the feminineTowards the masculineThe binary
Whether man or woman is the right shelf for you, even if it isn't the one people expect. Outside means both words belong to someone else.
Outside man/womanInside man/womanStability
Whether the answer you'd give today is the one you'd have given last winter. Moving is a shape, not indecision.
MovesHolds steadyIntensity
How much is there when you go looking. Some people find a strong, present thing. Some find a faint hum. Some find nothing, and the nothing is not a wound.
Faint or absentStrong and presentExpression
Whether it matters that other people see and name it correctly, or whether knowing is enough.
Felt more than shownNeeds to be seen and named
Your answers give you a shape on those six dimensions. We rank all 136 identities, across 9 categories, by how closely each one fits that shape. The top one is a suggestion, not a verdict.
Your answers never leave your phone.
- Scored in this tab
The ranking is worked out on your device and kept there.
- No account, no email
There is nothing to sign up for and nobody to send it to.
- Gone when you close the tab
Unless you ask this browser to remember for 7 days.
Every request this page makes
Scoring runs in this tab. There is no account, and no server call with your answers — the ranking is worked out on your device and kept there.
For the test itself, this page fetches two things: the public question file, /assets/scoring.json — the same file for everyone; and one anonymous hit when a test starts and one when it finishes (/c/test-start.txt, /c/test-complete.txt) — the event name, nothing else. That is how we know how many tests get started and finished, with no cookie and no identifier. Everything else it loads is the page itself: styles, images, the search index and the typefaces, all from this site (see Privacy). No request carries an answer. Open your browser’s network panel while you answer if you want to see for yourself.
Before you start.
Can a test tell me what gender I am?
No. Nobody can know that but you. This one listens to forty-eight answers and shows which of the 136 written descriptions sit closest to them. You get a shortlist to read, not a verdict to accept.
I searched “what’s my gender” — is this the quiz for that?
Yes, this is the page. Forty-eight statements, ten minutes, then the identities that fit your answers, each with a plain-words guide. It will not tell you who you are; it gives you the right words to read next.
Is this a medical or psychological test?
No. It is not a clinical instrument, it has not been clinically validated, and it is not evidence of anything about anyone. It describes experiences so you can recognise your own, or rule them out.
What are the questions like?
First-person statements, one per screen. The first one is: “The word I was given at birth still fits, without me having to think about it.” You say how true it is of you, on seven points.
How is the result worked out?
Each answer moves one of six scores between 0 and 100. Your scores are compared with a written profile for each identity, and the identities are ranked by how small the gap is. The whole model is one public file, the same for everyone.
Why forty-eight statements?
Each of the six dimensions is measured by eight statements, half of them written the other way round, so that agreeing with everything cancels out and one odd answer cannot swing a score. That is what makes the six numbers steady enough to rank 136 descriptions against, and it is why the test takes about ten minutes rather than two. It is still not a clinical instrument: it finds the words nearest to what you said, nothing more.
Why four parts?
Because forty-eight statements in a row is a slog, and a slog gets rushed. Every twelve the scene changes and there is a screen to breathe on. The parts are chapters, not subjects: each one measures all six dimensions, mixed, so you never answer eight statements about the same axis in a row and cannot steer a score without noticing. Nothing is shown until the end, because a half-time score would colour the second half.
What if I don’t want to answer one?
Every screen has “Prefer not to say”. It records the neutral midpoint, and your result tells you how many you left blank.
Who can see my answers?
Nobody. They are scored in your browser and they stay there. There is no account, no email and no cookie.
Is it free?
Yes. The test and the whole result are free: your closest match, your scores and your shortlist. Nothing in the result is held back.
I’m under 16. What can I read?
The test is for people aged 16 and over. The library is open to everyone: 138 identities, each explained in plain words.
