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Gender identity test Twenty questions.
Four minutes. Yours.

One statement per screen. At the end: all 136 identities, ranked by how closely each one fits you.

  • Free
  • No account
  • Nothing is sent
About four minutes. You can go back at any point.
A winding path through sunrise hills with signposts, before starting the gender identity test
How it works

Three steps. No sign-up.

  1. 1

    Answer the statements

    How true is each one of you? One tap, seven shades from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”.

  2. 2

    See your shape

    Your answers become six scores: alignment, direction, the binary, stability, intensity, expression.

  3. 3

    Read your shortlist

    All 136 identities, ranked by fit. The top one is a suggestion; the near-misses matter just as much.

What you get

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

What we ask

Six things we listen for.

Twenty 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 assigned

  • Direction

    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 masculine

  • The 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/woman

  • Stability

    Whether the answer you'd give today is the one you'd have given last winter. Moving is a shape, not indecision.

    MovesHolds steady

  • Intensity

    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 present

  • Expression

    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.

Privacy

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 twenty 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. Twenty statements, four 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.

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.

Ready when you are.

Twenty questions. Four minutes. Nothing is sent.

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