Gender Identity Quiz: See Which of Seven Identities Describes You
This gender identity quiz explores your felt gender, comfort, and expression through self-reflection. Based on affirming-care principles, it returns an instant pattern summary that cannot define your identity.
Reviewed by Michael Callans, MSW 
Gender Identity Quiz is a free, confidential 21-question self-assessment, built on gender-affirming care principles. It takes about 7 minutes, runs entirely in your browser, and gives you a plain-language profile of your strongest style plus an optional in-depth report. It is an educational screening, not a diagnosis.
Three caring angles on your sense of gender
Gender is about your inner sense of self, not just your body or your paperwork. This reflection looks at a few angles together, gently and without any clinical framing.
Felt sense of gender
The inner experience of who you are: whether the gender you were assigned at birth feels like home, feels off, or feels like only part of the story. This inner knowing is the heart of it, drawn from seven statements in Part 1 of the reflection.
Comfort & discomfort
Moments of ease and joy in your gender, sometimes called euphoria, alongside any quiet discomfort. We hold both softly, as signals worth noticing, never as symptoms, across seven statements in Part 2.
Expression
How you like to show up in the world: clothes, name, pronouns, presentation. Expression is one way people explore and honor their gender, and there is no wrong way to do it. Part 3 covers this in seven statements.
| Feature | Typical free quiz | Psychology.com |
|---|---|---|
| Affirming, non-clinical language | Often pathologizing | Yes, warm and gentle |
| Includes nonbinary as its own path | Rarely | Yes, fully |
| Frames euphoria, not just dysphoria | No | Yes, holds both gently |
| Honors that gender is self-defined | Tells you what you are | Reflects, then leaves the naming to you |
| Grounded in affirming-care principles | Sometimes outdated | Yes, APA & WPATH aligned |
| Optional in-depth personalized report | No | Yes, written to your exact scores |
| Confidential (no data sent) | Often tracked | Runs in your browser |
The 4 patterns this test measures
- Aligned with sex assigned at birth (cisgender): Your answers reflected comfort and rightness in the gender you were assigned at birth.
- A different gender than assigned: Your answers leaned toward a felt gender different from the one you were assigned at birth.
- Nonbinary or genderqueer: Your answers reflected a gender that lives beyond, between, or across man and woman.
- Exploring: Your answers reflected that you're still exploring your gender, which is a perfectly good place to be.
If nothing is endorsed, every pattern scores the same, or the leading patterns tie, the result says so instead of naming a single pattern.
The many ways people describe their gender
A gender identity test can help you reflect on how you experience gender; it cannot decide what gender you are. People use a range of everyday words to describe their gender, and none of them require a clinical test to claim. Cisgender describes feeling at home in the gender you were assigned at birth. Transgender describes a felt gender that differs from the one you were assigned. Nonbinary, genderqueer, and genderfluid describe experiences that sit outside, between, or across the two-gender frame, and agender describes not feeling a strong sense of gender at all. Questioning simply means you are still exploring, which is a complete and valid place to be.
There is no single official list of exactly how many gender identities exist, and any number you see online is really just a set of common labels, not a ceiling. What matters more than picking a word is whether a word feels true when you try it on. Many people find their language changes over time, and that is normal rather than a sign of confusion.
If you searched for a 7 identities test, treat that phrase as a search label, not a scientific classification. This gender identity quiz does not establish an exhaustive set of identities or assign you a definitive category. You can keep language that feels useful, disagree with the summary, or leave your identity unnamed.
Gender identity also differs from sexual orientation, which describes attraction. As the American Psychiatric Association explains, gender expression can reflect cultural expectations as well as personal preference. Liking particular clothes or being attracted to particular people does not let this quiz determine your gender. You can consider these experiences separately when an answer feels hard to choose.
How to explore your gender identity, gently
If this reflection left you with more questions than answers, that is a normal and even healthy response. A few small, low-stakes ways to explore include trying a different name or pronoun in a private journal, noticing which words for yourself bring a flicker of relief or joy, and paying attention to moments of discomfort without rushing to explain them away. The Who Am I exercise can give this kind of exploration some gentle structure.
It can also help to look at related pieces of yourself. The Self-Esteem Test and the Personal Values Test both explore how you see and value yourself, which often overlaps with questions of identity. And if you decide you want to talk it through with someone, the Psychology.com therapist directory lets you search specifically for gender-affirming therapists, at no cost and with no account required.
Before trying a name or sharing a result, consider who respects your privacy and where you feel safe. You can explore privately without making a public announcement. The Psychology.com tests hub offers other self-assessments if you want to reflect on a different concern, while keeping gender exploration separate from mental health screening.
If you want professional support, you can ask how the clinician works with people who are questioning and whether exploration can remain open-ended. You might bring examples of situations that feel comfortable or distressing instead of sharing the quiz result. The American Psychiatric Association describes supportive exploration without a preferred identity outcome; the purpose of that conversation is to understand your experience and support needs.
Methodology & sources
This reflection is built on the affirming-care principles set out by the American Psychological Association and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). That framework starts from a simple truth: diverse gender identities are normal and healthy expressions of human experience, not disorders. Rather than scoring you against any norm, the tool gathers signals from your felt sense of gender, your comfort or discomfort with the sex you were assigned at birth, and how you like to express yourself, then reflects back which patterns showed up most strongly.
This is a tool for self-reflection and education only. Gender identity cannot be diagnosed by a quiz, and diverse identities do not need fixing or curing. Gender dysphoria describes distress that may relate to sex characteristics, how someone is perceived, or both; its clinical assessment is separate from identity exploration. The result describes patterns in your answers, not a fixed truth about you. Only you can know and name your gender, in your own time, and it is completely valid for that to be fluid or to stay open.
Unlike a clinical screening such as the ones used for anxiety or depression, there is no single validated gender identity test with a scored cutoff, because gender identity is self-defined rather than symptom-based. This reflection instead draws its structure and language directly from the affirming-care guidance published by the APA (2015) and WPATH SOC-8 (2022), translating their principles into everyday questions rather than clinical criteria.
References
- American Psychological Association. Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People. Am Psychol. 2015;70(9):832-864.
- Coleman E, Radix AE, Bouman WP, et al. Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8 (WPATH SOC-8). Int J Transgend Health. 2022;23(sup1):S1-S259.
- American Psychological Association. Resolution on Gender Identity Change Efforts. 2021.
- American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed., Text Revision (DSM-5-TR): Gender Dysphoria. 2022.
- American Psychiatric Association. What Is Gender Dysphoria? psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/what-is-gender-dysphoria
Cite this source
Psychology.com. (2026, September 16). Gender Identity Quiz. Psychology.com. https://psychology.com/tests/gender-identity
Gender Identity Quiz FAQ
Can a quiz tell me my gender identity?
No. Gender is something only you can know from the inside, and no test can hand you that answer. This tool simply reflects patterns in how you answered, as a gentle prompt for self-reflection. The naming is always yours. If you arrived asking what gender am I, notice which descriptions feel comfortable and which feel imposed. You can disagree with the result or continue questioning without choosing a label.
What is the difference between gender identity and sex assigned at birth?
Sex assigned at birth is the label given based on physical traits. Gender identity is your inner sense of who you are. For many people these line up, which is called cisgender. For others they don't, which is just as healthy and valid. Gender expression includes clothing and presentation. You do not need a particular appearance to use identity language that fits you.
What is gender dysphoria, and is it a mental illness?
Gender dysphoria refers to distress related to a mismatch between experienced gender and assigned sex or sex characteristics. Being transgender is not a mental illness. Clinically significant distress or impairment can meet criteria for a gender dysphoria diagnosis, which requires a professional assessment. Discomfort can involve the body as well as social experiences. This reflection cannot assess those criteria; an affirming clinician can help you discuss distress and support options without deciding your identity for you.
Is being transgender or nonbinary a disorder?
No. The APA and WPATH are clear that diverse gender identities are normal, healthy variations of human experience. There is nothing to cure, and efforts to change someone's gender identity are harmful and ineffective. You do not need distress, medical treatment, or a quiz result to make your identity valid. Support should respect your own words and your choices.
Is this test really private?
Yes. It runs entirely in your browser. Your individual answers are scored in your browser and are never sent to us or linked to you. They stay in this tab so you can return to your result, and closing or clearing the tab clears them. If you ask us to email the PDF, we receive your summary scores with your email address, never your individual answers. No account is needed.
Is this a transgender test or a gender dysphoria test?
Not exactly. This reflection covers the full range of gender experience, including feeling aligned with your assigned sex, feeling different from it, and everything nonbinary or still-questioning in between. It is not narrowly a transgender test or a clinical gender dysphoria test, and it cannot diagnose dysphoria. If you are curious about that discomfort specifically, the question above on gender dysphoria is a good place to start.
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