The Emma Scale! (My analogy of Gender Identity)

I used to view gender as binary, but now that I have read about it, I found out that there is a whole range of genders out there. This spectrum is how I view gender identity now.

 

Thats pretty much how I view It too, thanks for sharing!
I also view sexuality like that, but at another scale , so that everyone has two scales, one for sexuality, one for gender identify

 

Hm.. I wonder where I'd be on the scale. I'm transsexual male but not your typical guy. I wear makeup and love fashion etc so I'm not 10.

However I am 100% guy and only flamboyant sometimes.

 

I'd say I'm a six or seven

 

I've always been pretty feminine so Id say when I'm a male Id be 3-4 and when I'm a female I'm -6 or -5

 

Nice, haha. I'd probably be a 6 or 7 because I'm feminine.

 

I dont understand how the scale works/is supposed to teach negatives :/ I feel stupid.

 

I probably fluctuate between -7 and 3. My gender identity is sort of screwing me over right now.

 

I guess I'd be -6, since I feel vaguely female. Or -5.

This is interesting; thanks for sharing. ^.^

 

In my reproductive biology and developmental endocrinology classes we learned that there are actually two scales for gender. Gender is not a scale of male to female - masculinization and feminization are largely separate processes in the body. Usually, when one occurs, it inhibits the other process, but this doesn't always happen. A person can be both masculinizied AND feminized, or neither can occur. There are lots of options!

So our two gender scales are agender (0) to male (10) and agender (0) to female (10). A person who does not experience a strong sense of gender but vaguely identifies as male might be a 1 or 2 on the male scale and a 0 on the female scale. A person who identifies as fully female would have a 0 on the male scale and a 10 on the female scale. A person who feels that they have both male and female characteristics might have a 5 on both scales.

In short, being male doesn't have to reduce the extent to which you are also female, and vice versa!

And finally, as other posters have pointed out, gender is only one of many scales. There's gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and others, none of which particularly have to overlap with the others. I recommend checking out the Genderbread Model.

 

-_- Just realised why I was so confused. Im on a tablet, so the negatives and poaitves are on top of each other. I understand now. Id probably be about a -8 I love being a girl, but I do jave some masculine things about me.

 

Probably -7 because I like being pretty, female aesthetics and being able to show my emotive side.

Not a -10 because because I well... Have a lot of residual bro tendencies and interests. But that's ok.

 

I really like having the two scales, one for male and one for female, because I have definitely had days when I felt pretty male and pretty female at the same time. That being said, using Emma's scale you could just choose two numbers, e.g. if you're feeling male and female you could be a 5 and a -5 at the same time.

 

I really like the idea of this scale for gender, but not HAVING to be on the scale, or being multiple numbers at once.
Would it be ok if I brought this up at the GSA at my school? Im not sure If I will (I tend to be a tad nervous, and shy in person), but I want to make sure I have permission if I do.

 

Not all genders are on that scale. I spend some of my life being on a completely different scale, some on a different scale and this one, and some just on this scale. My gender is crazy.

 

I'm probably a 0 to -4. Not one to consider myself a boy in any way other than my body, but easily preferring to be known as female rather than male despite having typically "masculine" characteristics. I'm of the opinion that masculinity and femininity are more like the condiments on your genderburger than a vital component of the actual sandwich.