Some further mucking about with the COGIATI. It turns out you can just submit scores to the website, and it will give results. I messed around with various scores and found that there are five categories.
-650 to -390 Classification 1 – Standard Male. Basically tells you that you’re a man, and any interests in dressing or feeling feminine are likely down to conflicts over your sexuality.
-385 to -130 Classification 2 – Feminine Male. Again, you’re conflicted about your sexuality, but this accepts that you do have some feminine traits.
-125 to 125 Classification 3 – Androgyne. Says you’re a mixture of male and female, or possibly neither. Advises you to have fun ‘playing’ with it.
130 to 385 Classification 4 – Probable Transsexual. Suggests that you seek counselling, since you may be a strong candidate for transition.
390 to 650 Classification 5 – Transsexual. Suggests that you absolutely need to seek counselling and support, and probably should transition.
655 and above, or -655 and below are impossible scores and return no classification.
Unless I’ve miscalculated, the lowest possible score is -650 and the highest possible is 635. There are 65 questions, most of which have 5 answers, scored +10, +5, 0, -5 and -10 points respectively. Some questions only have 4 answers, in which case, there is no +10 score.
I’m still struggling to believe that there’s no weighting on this test, and that while you can score +10 for identifying as a transsexual, you can lose all of those points by scoring -10 for being good at parking your car. The same (net zero) balance can be achieved identifying as male, but not knowing the forward gears from reverse. If you literally don’t know how to drive, then you’re instantly more feminine according to the COGIATI.
Now remember that those 20 points (-10 rather than +10) because you can park a car can easily tip the balance from, say, category 4 to category 3.
There’s some atrocious gender-cliché sterotyping here. To get top marks, I’ve had to claim to be suicidal (due to gender dysphoria) unable to park a car, crap at anything to do with maths or logic, have no sense of direction, coordination or spatial awareness, that I would prefer to be seen and not heard, especially in business meetings, and that I masturbate to erotic literature. On the plus side, I get to be literate, intuitive and sensitive, with a good memory of what people (including myself) were wearing.
Hopefully, properly dismantling this test has exposed it for the rubbish it is. It certainly has no place as any kind of diagnosis or self-diagnosis tool.
