Does your gender define you?

I'm the same, I see myself as me. I don't feel like either gender, but i have a penis therefore I'm male. In terms of stereotypes, I have a mix of both genders that include personality traits and likes and dislikes etc. but i don't hold much value in them. So I wouldn't say gender defines me.

Which is probably why I cant fully understand being trans, I don't know how it is to feel like a gender let alone one that I don't appear to be on the outside.

 

My gender doesn't really defy me but then I am confused about my gender right now anyways so you really shouldn't listen to me

 

No, not really. I just do what I like and what I feel like doing, and damn anyone who wants to rain on my parade. I feel like I tend to gravitate towards female peers and the more stereotypically feminine ideals, but then at the same time I am entering and am very passionate about a traditionally masculine field, law enforcement. If I woke up one day and saw that I was in fact female, I would be happy and ok with that. But I'm very happy as a male, so. It is what it is, I guess.

 

Only in the way in the biological sense, that is to say I'm comfartable being a guy, have no desire to change my biological gender but wouldn't be troubled by the idea of being a girl, again biologically speaking.
Socially speaking, I don't identify with any gender or gender role, as you can see in my profile.

 

I'm not too concerned with whether my gender defines me, really.

 

This this this a million times. Except, well, I'm only attracted to men.

 

My gender is about as far removed from my personal identity as it can get (hence what I wrote in the gender identity field). I find being labeled as "male" to be very limiting, even claustrophobic (in an abstract way), like if I were ambidextrous and were forced to use my right hand to write when I wanted to be free to use both.

I do still present largely as male, and I don't feel like I was born in the wrong body (again, hence what I wrote in the gender identity field), but I think I present as male mostly out of habit, as if I only wear this role because I've been wearing it my whole life and it suits me well enough that I don't feel the need to shed it entirely (though if it were more acceptable to shed it entirely, I probably would; I mostly keep to the male side of things out of convenience, due to the privilege men have in this society).

 

Im def female, im a bit of a feminist, so ill go off onto rants with zero warning (even to myself). On a day to day basis though i wouldnt say i think about it much, well except getting dressed, kinda difficult to miss the female bits then
However if im in a nervous situation i will instantly become more aware of it (must sit down nicely not just aim myself at chairs and hope).
So yes i do feel like a woman, but only when i think about it or when its right in front of me. Im also happy to be a woman, dont know if that makes a difference lol.

 

I don't think that it defines me. I am a female but I consider myself pangender. I mostly present as male, but I am fine with my female parts.

I have always gone with the thought that I am who I am and I do not let anybody change that.

 

I don't even care about my gender anymore.
The only time I get uncomfortable is when I'm changing in the girls changeroom. I just have to face the fact that I'm biologically female when filling out forms.

 

i definitely think about my gender every day -- from feeling a pang of awful anxiety when i worry about how others will read my presentation to feeling disgusted when i look in the mirror before stepping into the shower. it's .. pretty awful to say the least!

i wish i could just be a) a girl, period (ha) or b) able to say i'm a dude! but i'm not either of those things and that makes it all awful hard. some days i'm both, neither, one or the other, and i wish i could pick one and stick with it.

i present very feminine, because i love fashion! but i don't want to be read as "A Girl" and there's no way around that.

yuck, sorry for ranting ):

 

if you would consider my gender to be androgene, then i guess that does define me. but if you mean specifically my biological/visible gender, then no. i like being female just fine but i feel no strong connection to that fact. if i were to wake up one day to discover my body had become male, i'd be okay with that. when i think of myself i could be male or female, and i like it that way.

also, i find it very interesting when somebody does (occasionally) mistake me for a man, then when they realize i'm a woman they are soooo apologetic even though i assure them i do not mind at all!

 

My sex defines me more than I would like it to. I am sure that many women I come into contact with think that I have a problematic masculinity, and so they are always on their guard, not knowing who I really am.

I have a troubled relationship with maleness, and although I would say I am a cisgender man, it took me some questioning to be at peace with it. I publicly reject masculinity, and I like to display positive commonly-thought feminine qualities when I can and none of the negative commonly-thought masculine qualities.

I am who I am, and I take what I can get, but I kinda just hate the gender binary and want it to go die in a fire.

 

I fail to see how one's gender couldn't play a part in defining them and contribute to their personal identity in some way, no matter how 'typical' or 'atypical' their gender may be.

 

my gender is a part of my identity just as much as my sexuality, cultural upbringing, and morals are, it shapes what i do and the way i think, i dont follow all the male stereotypes but most of them are there.

its not that i let being a guy get in the way of defining me, its just like that, and thats just me i guess.

 

I do feel like so. My uncertain gender "bisexuality" feels like the perfect term to define the me that is changing, double-sided and atypical for a kind of a guy. It's like being milk and tea.

 

What a perfect analogy!

 

I love being a woman. I always have and I always will. I would never want to be a man, mostly because I have so many of the stereotypical qualities and interests that are associated with men, yet I embody them in (very feminine) female form. Nothing feels better to me than wielding power tools while wearing a dress and heels, covered in grease.

So yes, I am usually fairly aware of my gender, because I love that it DOESN'T define me, it doesn't dictate my skills or my interests.

 

^This^