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1. When did you first become aware of your identity? |
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2. Can you identify the particular individuals, reference groups, institutional processes, ritualized practices, structured occasions or media images that taught you the meanings and implications of who you are? If so, can you name them? |
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3. Where there ever instances where you questioned your identity? If so, what caused you to do so? |
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4. Have you ever felt the need to hide who you are? If so, why? Who were you hiding it from? What measures did you take to disguise it? |
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5. What are some of the norms, if any, you believed you had to fulfill to fit into your identity? |
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6. What were there actions, if any, you felt you had to express in order to fit into your identity? |
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7. Have you ever felt pressure to behave in a manner contrary to your preferences or beliefs? |
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8. Have you ever needed to tell someone close to you what your identity was? If so, how did they respond initially and have their perceptions about you changed? |
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9. Do you currently feel any pressure about hiding your identity from anyone? If so, from who and why? |
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10. Do you believe your perceptions about your own identity have changed over time? (Between the time of when you first discovered your identity to present day.) |
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11. Are you now or have you been a member of or associated with any group/organization that focused on the issue of gender or sexual orientation? If so, can you name them? |
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