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Short for the COmbined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory, the COGIATI is a classic, old-internet quiz made by Jennifer Diane Reitz (a transgender woman) to help people determine if they are transgender, using 65 questions to classify respondents on a scale whose categories include "Definite Male", "Feminine Male", "Androgyne", "Probable Transsexual", and "Classic Transsexual".

It was made in the late 1990s and reeks of 90s sexism such as being bad at math and driving being feminine traits, and criticisms of it frequently point out it effectively is just an "are you a comically girly girl" quiz with no scientific merit, despite the alleged rooting of the questions in unidentified "recent research papers". Many transgender women who were struggling with their gender identity in the 2000s have stated the COGIATI made them seriously doubt their identity, being unable to envision themselves as girly girls and repressing (repping) their transness far longer than they would have otherwise. It also only acknowledges the existence of transgender women; enbies and transgender men are ignored by the test.

Though it is still available to take, it is by and large treated as a joke for its roots in gender essentialism and is typically used as shorthand on /lgbt/ (/tttt/) to imply someone is trying too hard to be trutrans or holds views reminiscent of the 1950s.

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