Gender-variance experience

Are you currently taking, or do you usually take male hormones?7 Are you currently taking, or do you usually take female hormones?8 Have you undertaken breast reduction surgery?7

Have you undertaken genital reconstruction surgery (sometimes known as sexual reassignment surgery)?8

Response options: Yes; No

At what age did you first become aware that your gender was different from what was considered normal by society?9

Response options: Since my earliest memories; At a later age than my earliest memories

Please enter the age that you were when you first became aware that your gender was different from what was considered normal by society10

Please select the statement which best fits your experiences prior to your awareness of your gender-variance. (For the purposes of this question, "gender-variance" refers to your sense of not belonging completely to the gender of your birth-assigned sex)10

I believe that my gender-variance was a part of me prior to me realising its existence within me. I had just managed to avoid/deny/suppress it

I believe my gender-variance was not a part before I realised it existed. I believe it only developed when I first became aware of it

I expressed my gender-variance from my earliest memory. I just didn't realise that it wasn't considered normal by society

I don’t have enough recollection of my feelings prior to my realisation that my gender was different to select any of the above statements.

Self-identification with classical/non-classical gender-variance

Some people who experience gender-variance notice that their experience is different from what has been called the "classical" experience of gender-variance. These persons who were assigned the gender of female at birth often live outwardly

prosperous lives in the female gender role in the earlier years of their life, sometimes marry and have children, and were not overly masculine as children. These persons usually report being sexually attracted to males or bisexual, and sometimes report experiencing cross-gender eroticism (e.g. to cross-dressing, being in the male social role, or obtaining a male body). This has been called the "non-classical", or sometimes "secondary" experience of gender-variance.

On the other hand, those experiencing "classical" (sometimes called "primary") gender-variance generally were very masculine as children, don't have as much success living in the female role in the earlier years of their life, and tend not to marry or have children. These persons are usually only sexually attracted to females, and don't experience cross-gender eroticism.

Please select one of the following statements that best describes your experiences of gender-variance.7

My experiences completely match the "non-classical" experience of gender- variance

My experiences more match the "non-classical" than the "classical" experience of gender-variance

My experiences equally match both the "non-classical" and "classical" experiences of gender-variance

My experiences more match the "classical" than the "non-classical" experience of gender-variance

My experiences completely match the "classical" experience of gender-variance This distinction does not apply to my experiences.

Some people who experience gender-variance notice that their experience is different from what has been called the "classical" experience of gender-variance. These persons who were assigned the gender of male at birth often live outwardly prosperous lives in the male gender role in the earlier years of their life, sometimes marry and have

children, and were not overly feminine as children. These persons usually report being sexually attracted to females or bisexual, and sometimes report experiencing cross- gender eroticism (e.g. to cross-dressing, being in the female social role, or obtaining a female body). This has been called the "non-classical", or sometimes "secondary" experience of gender-variance.

On the other hand, those experiencing "classical" (sometimes called "primary") gender-variance generally were very feminine as children, don't have as much success living in the male role in the earlier years of their life, and tend not to marry or have children. These persons are usually only sexually attracted to males, and don't experience cross-gender eroticism.

Please select one of the following statements that best describes your experiences of gender-variance.8

My experiences completely match the "non-classical" experience of gender- variance

My experiences more match the "non-classical" than the "classical" experience of gender-variance

My experiences equally match both the "non-classical" and "classical" experiences of gender-variance

My experiences more match the "classical" than the "non-classical" experience of gender-variance

My experiences completely match the "classical" experience of gender-variance This distinction does not apply to my experiences.

Environmental tolerance of gender-variance

Acc1: Please rate how your gender-variant behaviour was, or how you believed it would have been reacted-to by your parents/caregivers, in your childhood9

Acc2: Please rate how your gender-variant behaviour was, or how you believed it would have been reacted-to by your peers, in your childhood9

Response options: 1. Scorn; 2.; 3.; 4. Tolerance; 5.; 6.; 7. Full acceptance; I do not remember

Acc3: How safe do you believe that the environment you grew up in was, or would have been, to express your gender-variance? 9

Response options: 1. Very unsafe; 2.; 3.; 4. Somewhat safe; 5.; 6.; 7. Very safe; I do not remember

Cross-gender eroticism

CGE2 Have you ever become sexually aroused while picturing yourself having a nude male body or with certain features of the nude male form?7

CGE2 Have you ever become sexually aroused while picturing yourself having a nude female body or with certain features of the nude female form?8

CGE3 Have you ever been sexually aroused by the thought of being a man?7 CGE3 Have you ever been sexually aroused by the thought of being a woman?8

CGE1 I find stories in which a male and female character swap places, either by magical or science fiction means sexually arousing.11

CGE4 Sometimes I get a sexual thrill when I see my masculine image in the mirror12

CGE4 Sometimes I get a sexual thrill when I see my feminine image in the mirror8 CGE5 Being in the masculine role has been a sexually arousing experience for me12

CGE5 Being in the feminine role has been a sexually arousing experience for me8 CGE6 In the past, I have become sexually excited when I read about women becoming men12

CGE7 In the past, I have become sexually excited when I read about men becoming women8

Response options: Strongly disagree; Somewhat disagree; Slightly disagree; Neither agree or disagree; Slightly agree; Somewhat agree; Strongly agree

Other non-classical gender-variance experiences I dislike(d) the genitalia that I was born with

I am/was not concerned about using the genitalia I was born with for sexual activity

I am sexually attracted to masculine features on females (e.g. short hair, masculine facial features)

I am sexually attracted to feminine features on males (e.g. long hair, feminine facial features)

In the past, I have made relatively successful attempts at living in the female gender role

In the past, I have made relatively successful attempts at living in the male gender role

Response options: Strongly disagree; Somewhat disagree; Slightly disagree; Neither agree or disagree; Slightly agree; Somewhat agree; Strongly agree