Sometimes.
Someone wrote…
On forms, I don’t check male or female. I write “sometimes” above both.
What’s your experience?
Posted by julian on July 6th, 2010 at 08:00 am
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15 Responses to “Sometimes.”
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July 6th, 2010 at 8:02 am |
I love you!
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July 6th, 2010 at 10:29 am |
This is brilliant.
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July 6th, 2010 at 11:13 am |
I like to circle them and write “All of the above” next to it.
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July 6th, 2010 at 1:25 pm |
If only I had the courage to do so…kudos to you!
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July 6th, 2010 at 5:01 pm |
ten points!
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July 6th, 2010 at 6:52 pm |
Reminds me of Chico Marx being asked, “Would you like whiskey or a cocktail, Sir?” and he replied, of course, “OK.” Dorothy Parker was sitting across from him. When she was asked “Would you like a whiskey or a cocktail, madam?” She replied, “Yes, please.”
My partner always write in “Homo Sapiens” under Race.
I like your “Sometimes” very much, too.
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July 6th, 2010 at 6:56 pm |
I circle both aswell! And if ‘Transgender’ is an option I circle that also. Oh the awesome. :)
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July 6th, 2010 at 8:28 pm |
Brilliant, that’s my new favorite.
I’ll occasionally write underneath the options “Decisions, decisions…”
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July 6th, 2010 at 10:44 pm |
About 3 years ago, before I was out as even a dyke I had to take a course and they had you fill out an application and I had left it blank, as a social experiment because my friend had come out as trans recently, and I thought, he is struggling with bathrooms on a nongovernment form I wonder what would happen if I left it blank as protest? And she was going over it with me and was like doodoodooo…oh…you didnt fill out sex, well you’re certainly not a boy…hahahah
It legimately hurt my feelings because I hadn’t thought of myself as trans yet, but I did think YOU JUST MET ME, YOU DON’T KNOW ME! I still leave it blank sometimes. I’m a boi not a boy usually but a girl never.
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July 7th, 2010 at 1:50 pm |
I was recently filling out a survey at my college orientation and I wrote in the word “Other” and checked it. I didn’t realize how many other people did similar things! More power to you!
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July 7th, 2010 at 3:16 pm |
Awesome! Go you. :D
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July 8th, 2010 at 9:33 am |
I’m going to start doing this. I have in the past just left it blank but I like this more.
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July 9th, 2010 at 12:56 am |
love it!
i usually leave that part of a questionnaire blank, or make a box of my own stating that i dont align myself with either of those terms, so id be giving out incorrect/false information if i participate in that section of the questionnaire.
: )
btw –
i recently encountered a form where the options under the section ‘birth sex’ were: Male, Female, Intersex, Other, or Decline.
i was so relieved that i had finally found a form that first of all, separated ‘birth sex’ from ‘gender identity/expression’, and two, that understood ‘sex’ as more than two binary organs…i think i might have cried.
it was the first time EVER in a form, that I could actually acknowledge myself.
: )
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July 11th, 2010 at 8:30 am |
@shey That’s incredible! It’s nice to see those options. Unfortunately, I mostly only see them for lgbt related things or certain psychology questionnaires.
I hate it on online forms where they require you to pick. Really? Is that really necessary for your corporation to work?
I mostly stopped on this post because of something I do in conversation. Not only am I bigender, but I’m pretty careless with pronouns and gender-orientated phrases. So when someone nit-picky replies with “but you’re a girl!”, I’ve gotten into habit of smiling and replying with “sometimes”. :)
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August 19th, 2010 at 4:10 am |
I resented our LGBT of all places asking us “Gay / Straight ?” on the sign up paper at freshers, so I circled the / and the ? :)
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