because she doesn't identify as MTF, but solely as female
...but then she could have identified as "female"? *sighs* I don't know, this is one area of life where I haven't had to struggle and question myself, so it's a difficult one to grasp (but hey, if there's ever a ticky-list for ethnicities, I'm all there)
Providing additional choices in no way prevents her from indicating that she is female, whereas failing to provide additional choices does prevent me from indicating my identity
yes, that is my gut-feeling too. Most people will still pick either male or female, because many people don't even question whether there is any other choice. But it's not like they have to be truthful there either, so the developers can only hope that there isn't a bunch of 15-year-old boys who have decided that they'll use DW as the place to play out their 25-year-old-girl sex RPG, you know?
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Date: 2009-05-01 07:33 pm (UTC)...but then she could have identified as "female"? *sighs* I don't know, this is one area of life where I haven't had to struggle and question myself, so it's a difficult one to grasp (but hey, if there's ever a ticky-list for ethnicities, I'm all there)
Providing additional choices in no way prevents her from indicating that she is female, whereas failing to provide additional choices does prevent me from indicating my identity
yes, that is my gut-feeling too. Most people will still pick either male or female, because many people don't even question whether there is any other choice. But it's not like they have to be truthful there either, so the developers can only hope that there isn't a bunch of 15-year-old boys who have decided that they'll use DW as the place to play out their 25-year-old-girl sex RPG, you know?