So if I deduced that correctly, you're a transgender person? If so, would I be allowed to ask you a few short questions? I'm currently trying to gather a bit of input for a term paper I'm writing and would appreciate it. :-)
It all depends on the specific questions. But I haven't really hidden my status here, it just doesn't come up all that often.
It won't be anything too personal. I'm writing a term paper on the role of individual identity and sense of self in applied humanistic psychotherapy methods. As for that, I would simply ask you some small questions about how important identity is to you and how strongly you feel about it. (By the way, I chose to ask you, because people with a strong sense of self, who actually actively identify as something, usually have different opinions from those, who consider themselves "normal." I need a few opinions from both sides, so that's why.)
For instance, one question I'd have would be this: How important is it for you to openly identify yourself and find acceptance of whom you are? Or in other words: Is people seeing you in a similar way you see yourself important to you or rather not? (Eg: Imagine you telling someone you're transgender, but that person, for whatever reason, refuses to see you as such. Would that bother you?)
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