The purpose of a survey about gender transgression was to determine if the concept of transgressing gender is valid. Do men feel a sense of transgression when they do feminine-typical things? Do women feel a sense of transgression when they do masculine-typical things? I also explored how things like AGP and AAP, gender issues, homosexuality, and transgender identity affect a sense of gender transgression. I also asked about pleasure for doing things that are either male or female typical.
Before I explain the survey further, I would like to note some difficulties I had while attempting to get respondents to this survey. I posted this survey to the subreddit r/samplesize in order to get respondents. My survey was downvoted by some presumably male to female transsexuals who decided that I was transphobic because I had posted to r/gendercritical in the past. It's ironic that this was their reason for downvoting me, considering how I described my feelings for r/gendercritical in my previous blog.
I reposted this survey to r/samplesize under a different Reddit account, and I was able to get a good number of respondents, but eventually that post was taken down by the moderators of r/samplesize because some people (again, presumably male to female transsexuals) flagged it as transphobic. I am weary about the results because there's a good chance some of the respondents answered falsely in order to produce bad results. Despite this, and because this is not an academic survey, I decided to proceed with an analysis of the results.
Results
Gender Transgression and Delight in Overall Male and Female Respondents
I discovered that gender transgression (feeling like you have violated a boundary) is a valid concept when it comes to women feeling as though they violated a boundary by doing male-typical things, and also when it comes to men feeling as though they violated a boundary by doing female-typical things. When it came to finding gendered activities delightful, men found female-typical activities less pleasurable than women, but the difference in delight for male-typical activities was not significant.
A feeling of violating a boundary by engaging in a non-gender typical way exists in both men and women. Males feel less pleasure by doing female-typical things, but females find male-typical things about as pleasurable as men do.
Effect of A*P, Gender Issues, Homosexuality
AGP male responses are similar to non-AGP male responses, except that AGP males find more delight in female-typical activities.
AAP female responses are similar to non-AAP females responses, except that AAP females find more delight in male-typical activities, and find female-typical activities slightly more transgressive.
Men with gender issues find male-typical activities slightly more transgressive and female-typical activities more delightful. They also find male-typical activities less delightful.
Women with gender issues find female-typical activities slightly more transgressive and male-typical activities more delightful. They also find female-typical activities less delightful.
Homosexual males find female-typical things slightly more delightful.
Homosexual females find female-typical things slightly more transgressive and slightly less delightful. They find male-typical things slightly more delightful.
Transgender Responses
Compared to men, trans women find female-typical activities less transgressive and more delightful. They find male-typical activities more transgressive and less delightful.
Compared to women, trans women find female-typical activities both more transgressive and more delightful. They find male-typical activities equally transgressive but much less delightful.
Compared to women, trans men find female-typical activities more transgressive and less delightful. They find male-typical activities less transgressive and more delightful.
Compared to men, trans men find female-typical activities more transgressive and less delightful. They find male-typical activities both more transgressive and more pleasurable.
Further Research
I did not try to divide A*P trans responses from non-A*P trans responses. I could possibly do this based on the questions I posed regarding sexual orientation and arousal by the idea of being the opposite sex.
What I Found Significant in this Survey
The first result that I found significant was that gender transgression appears to be real. There does appear to be a boundary between female and male typical behaviours, with some kind of emotional response one has when it is crossed.
The second result that I found significant was that transgender people find engaging in behaviours that are typical of their birth gender to be less pleasurable. I have heard accounts of trans people who are really off-put by engaging in behaviour related to their gender assigned at birth. I speculate that this could be due to A*P types feeling disconnected to their female artifact (an internal persona that they love) by engaging in birth gender typical behaviour. Evidence for this theory would be stronger if compared A*P to non-A*P transgender responses.
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