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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me ask this.  My biological sex is female.  I menstrate.  I bear children.  I produce milk for those children.  I like penises and like hard lean bodies.

But, how do I figure out what "gender" I am?   I think I must be the gender equivalent of color blind, because I can not begin to imagine how one knows what gender one is?[/quote]

I think this goes to the point one of the PPs was making about "gender" involving a lot of stereotypes and the issue of being transgender raising some flags regarding what "is" and "isn't" masculine or feminine.  On the one hand, there is much more recognition these days that gender is fluid and that people do not need to be just one way to be a man or a woman.  On the other hand, transgenderism does run the risk of feeding into gender stereotypes.  It's an interesting dichotomy -- on the one hand, there are people who were born female and consider themselves female but dress or act in a way more commonly associated with men are saying, "Society needs to accept that you can be a woman without liking pink and wearing heels and having long hair!"  On the other, there are people who were born male but consider themselves female, and while they are also challenging the traditional notion of what a female may "typically" look like because they probably have some attributes typically considered to look more "male," in most cases, they tend to dress and act in a way that is hyper female and thus reinforce some of these stereotypes.[/quote]

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