Names, address and social expectations: Complete Gender Experiences Guide

A form of address is part of a setting

This record concerns names or forms of address that did not feel like your own, address that felt comfortable, roles expected because of gender and comfort differing between settings. These are recollections of social experience. The questionnaire asks you to enter no actual name, pronoun, relationship or location, and it cannot decide what anyone intended by a word.

Expectations and agreement are different

An expected role does not tell the website whether it was agreed, negotiable, welcome or distressing. A familiar form of address can feel different depending on who uses it and where. You can recognise a difference without being required to explain it. The four descriptions do not establish a fixed social-role preference, a political attitude or a complete account of an interaction.

Views on gender roles are another question

The existing social-attitudes activity asks what you think about shared duties, hobbies and fair participation criteria. This record asks how address and expectations felt in your own experience. Endorsing an equality statement does not answer a personal-comfort question, and a personal experience does not identify someone’s views or identity. The methods and records are not converted.

No trial, disclosure or social test is prescribed

The activity does not ask you to try a name, change pronouns, correct another person or test someone’s response. It has no knowledge of your setting or safety. You may keep familiar arrangements, leave a question private or choose a separate conversation if you want. No real-world action is needed to validate a category you selected here.

You decide whether any wording is useful

If useful, privately notice which part of one statement fit and which remained uncertain. No specific word must replace another, and no explanation has to be shared. A full guide can be read as information and then set aside. Whether to discuss an experience, with whom and how much remains a separate choice that this record does not make.

How the record works

For each original statement, choose whether it describes your past four weeks, partly describes them or does not describe them. Cannot judge, no relevant experience and prefer not to answer remain separate. Six category counts in each four-statement record add to four; individual sentences and labels remain visible. Comfortable, uncomfortable and uncertain descriptions can coexist and are not reverse-scored. There are no points, totals, averages, thresholds, gender categories or clinical results.

Origin, limits and support

• FermatMind authored these sixteen statements and four complete readings. This is not a gender-identity classifier, a dysphoria screen, UGDS, GIDYQ or an assessment under WPATH standards. Reliability, validity, norms and English–Chinese equivalence have not been established. Four weeks is only a recall aid, not a duration criterion. No combination of choices determines an identity, diagnosis, need for treatment or future path. Public health information provides context without validating these statements.
• Support is available if you want it, without a label, a particular answer or completion. You may speak with a qualified professional who respects your privacy and choices, and decide how much to share. This exercise asks for no disclosure, changes to your body or presentation, trial of a name or pronoun, or medical action. It cannot assess personal safety or choose a care pathway. For immediate danger or an inability to stay safe, seek local emergency help rather than continue.