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I'm surprised at this. Is there a special term for "only identifying with one's gender by default" or keywords I can use to look for statistics for among the general population? (a brief googling didn't uncover anything). I would've guessed this number to be much lower, and now I'm wondering whether this is signaling or whether my model of other people in this particular instance is completely wrong.
Personally I was surprised so amny cis people strongly identified with their gender
[tpical mind etc...]
I think I actually put that down. Reasoning: gender is mostly, IMHO, social performance. Since I was born male, and was mostly trained to perform maleness, that's mostly what I perform. But it's not a conscious, reasoned-out choice made by weighing reasons for and against. It's just the coincidence of what happened. A counterfactual me who had been born female and raised to perform femaleness, but was otherwise the same, would not be so masculine-leaning as to transition.
Weirdly enough, my normal behavior tends to code as more masculine than average. This is, as people would obviously reason if they could think at all clearly ;-), overcompensation for spending half my youth being told to stop being such an oversensitive pussy and man-up already (sorry for the language, but the experiences were rather severe, actually).
I don't understand how this counterfactual is supposed to work. Does being born female include not having a Y chromosome and thus no SRY gene, thus no testosterone bath in the womb and the resulting cascade? If so it's unclear what you mean by "otherwise the same".
Well yes, of course.
It's not an established term in the sense that people would have conducted research on it, as far as I know: unless I'm mistaken, it comes from here.
And here's the Internet Archive's copy of Ozy's original "Cis By Default" post.
Edit: And now they've reposted it to their current blog.
Thank you both for providing the links. I will wait and see whether the percentage stays the same in the 2015 survey...