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Being Trans in the EU — Comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey dataTable A8: Respondent typology, by identity group, sex assigned at birth, and gender belonging (how much theyfeel feminine and/or masculine) (%)EU trans average Trans women Trans menFeeling feminine 36 89 6Feeling masculine 39 3 85No feeling of beingfeminine or masculineFeeling both feminineor masculine5 2 119 6 7Don’t know 2 0 1N/n 6,579 1,147 631Transgender Gender variant Queer/ OtherTotal Female Male Total Female Male Total Female MaleFeeling feminine 45 5 70 31 8 36 20 42 7Feeling masculine 33 72 9 18 38 14 53 19 73No feeling of beingfeminine or masculineFeeling both feminineor masculine4 8 2 5 12 4 6 10 316 13 17 42 38 44 19 26 15Don’t know 2 2 2 3 5 3 2 3 2n 1,104 463 641 753 154 599 2,371 987 1,384Cross dresserTotal Female MaleFeeling feminine 23 17 28Feeling masculine 33 36 30No feeling of beingfeminine or masculineFeeling both feminineand masculine9 14 532 30 33Don’t know 3 3 4n 573 286 287Questions:Note:Base:A2. What sex were you assigned at birth? Female – Male.A5. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I feel feminine/masculine. – Strongly disagree, disagree, agree,strongly agree.N = total trans sample; n = trans subgroup sample.Trans respondents in the EU LGBT survey.Source: FRA, EU LGBT survey, 2012Gender expressionAround half of the cross dressers say that theirappearance follows their sex assigned at birth. Oneout of five cross dressers say that they look bothmasculine and feminine, and another one out offive say that their looks are opposed to their sexassigned at birth. Around 70 % of the transsexualrespondents have a look in line with their genderidentity (Table A9).Turning to the transgender, gender variant andqueer subgroups, there are differences betweenthem according to the sex assigned at birth. In the114