What helps you feel your non-birth gender?

wearing my bra and panties for sure. before anything I had started growing my hair out after highschool and now I put it in a ponytail. If my har co-operated more then I would style it more, but it likes to stay a slightly curly mess, so ponytail is the easiest to do.

 

This will get a tad TMI, but it won't be going into detail.

I feel most like a guy when I'm lifting weights and watching TV, as well as gay porn. I have a larger chest and can't bind, I don't have the money for a packer, and a lot of "male" clothes I have are either too small because I got them years ago or gained weight, or too big because I'm now losing weight or they were previously from male family members. I have a soft, quiet voice that, at best, makes me sound like a nine year old boy. I'm 5'3. And very few people actually use the pronouns I want. The only reason they use my name is because Sam is the shortened version of my birth name, a name my mum picked purely because she could call me by a unisex name. So working out to work my way up to the body I want while I wait for a gender therapist to see me and get on HRT helps because I'm one of the only "females" at the weights section of my gym, so I feel like one of the guys there. And watching TV and porn, while a more unrealistic view of men and myself, let's my imagination run a little wild - I can pretend it's me or that I can look like that.

 

I'm a trans male, and I only identify as one gender. It's difficult to say what makes me "feel" the most like my gender, but I become the most aware of it when I am forced to present myself as female, and as a result do feminine things. I'm personally quite masculine, so acting in a feminine way feels to me like... Well, an act. A tedious, exhausting act.

I imagine I would feel like my gender more often if I were actually out presenting myself as a male. I know that I feel the most like one whenever I am read like one (I usually present as androgynous so sometimes people address me as a male). Also doing things like martial arts and gaming makes me feel more... energised? I don't think that's related so much to gender (neither of those things are gender-specific) but I get a similar feeling of happiness there to when I present myself fully as male. Maybe it's because of the increase in testosterone, I don't know.