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While I would like to think of myself as something rare and shiny, I'd like to admit that I don't actually identify as "truly" ambidextrous.

It's perhaps more accurately "mixed-handedness", and while I have quite a few of the benefits of what an truly ambidextrous person would, I also have some negatives that a person with one clear dominant side wouldn't. I think the benefits outweigh the negatives for me, but I don't think everyone would necessarily agree. And ofc it depends on your degree of mixedness, basically.

It's much more common, being reported in this study at a rate of 13.49% while left-handedness was 7.14%.

For instance I used to do frisbee golf (disc golf?) quite a lot more, and long throws obviously with my right, although I could do them a bit with my left. But then my left wrist (what I mostly write with) is stronger so when I put the disc, left was often more reliable. So then if it was between a put and a medium range throw, I'd have problems choosing which hand to throw with.

Then again writing on a blackboard, sorry, whiteboard is what they are nowadays, I start with my left but finish with my right.

And when I cook for instance, which hand holds the product and which cuts is mostly a matter of how I'm facing or what hand the knife happens to be closer to. I can also shoot from both sides, although my right-eye does seem more dominant.

Coincidentally my preferred gender is sort of slightly fluid as well and/or mixed but my presentation is 99% of the time mostly masculine. I don't live in the most progressive society in terms of attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people.