At least this uses the words male and female as the adjectives they are.
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Oh, those Britts, always complicating things. /s
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Did they use this sort of test? Yes if it’s a word, no if it’s not a word, points lost if you recognize a nonword as a word? They don’t ask for a definition.
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femtosecond? who cares. I could not give it a quadrillionth of a second’s thought.
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Ah, there is a longer version of the chart! My feeble eyes misread the last entry on the short list in the article as “bison”. I was confused how that majestic creature was transphobic. Then I found the fuller version of the list… FFS 
I had a character in a game that I called “Bosun Higgs”; he was a space pirate, who was small and elusive.
It is certainly not a rank to be whistled at.
Corrupted Bosons?! Is that even worse than mutated neutrinos?
Is that Kohls Hard Cash?
You care not a femtofuck?
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It’s a variety of rabe!
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I took a closer look at both the main article and the chart derived from its results… and I have to say, I’m a little confused. The word prevalence study seems to only measure the recognition of English words, and makes few conclusions based on gender of participants at all (as far as I can tell from the Abstract, Method, and Results sections.)
The chart illustrates data derived from the study in the main article… which is fine, but I’m not sure what we’re supposed to be taking away from it. For me, it strongly indicates a societal bias in which some words and subjects are exposed to men more than women, and vice versa, along very stereotypical lines. But we don’t have much data on the age of participants, their education levels, or their socioeconomic status by which we might understand the results better, or draw deeper conclusions on them. So it’s interesting… but is it useful?
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These days, it’s barely that. It’s mostly a place people take their Amazon returns and buy socks on the way out.
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I think it’s like an inkblot. It’s noise sorted into a familiar pattern via art and chance, and we can free associate meaning into it?
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From the paper:
For a long time, we hoped that improved word frequency measures would solve the problem, but so far this anticipation has not been met: Some words are much better known than we would expect from the frequency with which they are used in the corpora we have at our disposal to calculate word frequen- cy measures. Subjective word familiarity ratings may be an alternative (Gernsbacher, 1984), but so far they have not been collected for most of the words. In addition, such ratings can be criticized, because they are collected from a small number of people (who may be more or less familiar with some words for idiosyncratic reasons). In addition, there is a difference between how many people know a word and how familiar they are with the word. Some words score low on familiarity but are known to nearly everyone (such as basilisk, obelisk, oxymoron, debacle, emporium, and armadillo).
In otherwords, they have reams of data-- perhaps even bad data-- and they are going through it to try to find anything that may bear on these linguistic mysteries.
I know basilisk from D&D and allied fantasy role playing games-- perhaps the corpora they use neglected this niche.
These sorts of studies have some use in language education—people who learn a language late in life are often interested in doing specific things in a language that are very distant from what native speakers with a similar vocabulary are interested in.
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Carbureto, you say.
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I think she is the only Ferengi lady who has ever appeared on screen.
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Moogi? Maybe… wasn’t there an episode where Quark met a young Ferengi who showed promise in the ways of business, and it turned out she was a woman dressing as a man? Yes!
Pel!
And the episode where Quark becomes Lumba? Does that count?
Bonus, this one was directed by Alexander Siddig…
But Pel does…
Yes!
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Quark moonlighting as a Drag Queen doesn’t really count. He wasn’t enjoying It.
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Besides the mother there wss one who was dressed as a “male” with fake lobes.
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I think Pel counts. I believe she was only disguised as male, not trans.
Edit: of course others beat me to it in mere seconds.
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using “carburetor” can be fine. it depends a bit on whether it’s demonically possessed or simply self aware though 
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