TPI QUESTIONNAIRE

The Transgender & Personal Identity Project is studying the idea of

gender change. How did it, or does it happen, is there an awareness
of personal, internal psychological and phenomenological changes?
We are interested in the how those changes happened, the way the
trans person changed, and the ways in which the world was
experienced differently. This questionnaire will help us determine if
you are a good subject for us.

If you wish to be interviewed we need to be able to get in touch with

you once your form has been reviewed. Please understand that all
personal information will be held in the strictest of confidence in
accord with the guidelines established by the York University Office of
Research Ethics. Please fill in the following or contact purposes.

NAME:

EMAIL:

Please mark your answers by placing X next to your choice.

PART I Please answer the following questions by selecting one of the

available choices. If you are not happy with the choices, please make
the best choice and add a comment. You may make your comments as
long and as detailed as you like. But please make a selection first.

1. Age:

2. City and country of birth:

City and country of residence:

3. Birth-designated sex, i.e., what’s was put on your birth certificate:

a. Female
b. Male
c.
Intersex

4. Current legal sex, i.e., what’s on your birth certificate now:

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a. Female
b. Male
c.
Intersex
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5. Current life sex; i.e., the sex in which you are living:

a. Female
b. Male
c.
Intersex

6. Education [please select highest level of formal education.]

a. Grade school c. College or University

b. High school d. Post graduate studies

7. Please select ONE of the following you believe best applies to you.

a. Transgender
b. Transsexual
c. Cross-dresser
d. Gender queer

Comment:

8. If you had to choose one or the other, you would describe yourself
as,

a. MTF
b. FTM

Comment:

9. If you had to choose one or the other, you would describe yourself
as,

a. Transsexual
b. Cross-dresser

Comment:
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If you answered [a] to question 9, selecting ‘transsexual,’ then

please go to Part II’ If you answered [b] to question 9, selecting
‘cross-dresser,’ then please go to Part III.

Part II
To be answered by those indicating transsexual to question 9.

10. When I was younger, I was more or less content with my birth-
designated gender.

a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:

11. There came a time in my life when I began to feel differently.

a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:

12. In many ways I am a different person than I was in my birth-

designated gender.

a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:
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PART III
To be answered by those indicating cross-dresser to question 9.

13. I am more or less content with my birth-designated gender.

a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:

14. When I am en femme/en homme I feel quite different most of the time.
a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:

15. When I am en femme/en homme I experience the world in a different way.

a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:

16. When I am en femme/en homme I am very aware of taking a

different place in the world.

a. Yes
b. No
c. Yes, but not completely

Comment:
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Thank you very much for filling out this questionnaire. We hope that
the research arising from this project will result in a deeper
understanding of several theoretical and philosophical issues involving
the transgender phenomenon.

If you believe that you are not a likely candidate, or are unable to meet
for an interview, you can still submit a story or anecdote about your
experiences in your non-birth-designated gender. Please go to the I
HAVE A STORY page on the website.

Thank you very much.

When you are finished, please save this form, and attach it to an email
to: tpi@yorku.ca. If you can’t do that, just copy it and insert it into an
email. If you can’t do that, then print it and send it by surface mail to,

TPI Project c/o Miqqi Alicia Gilbert

South 428 Ross
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M4K 1C9
CANADA

We’ll take it any way you can give it.

You will also be added to the periodic TPI newsletter unless you
indicate otherwise.

Many Thanks!