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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]

The rebuttal to this is that you don't feel a gender identity because your gender identity aligns with your sex, and you are thus "cisgender." From the POV of those who endorse the concept of gender identity, only people whose gender identity doesn't match their sex (and are thus transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, etc.) can "feel" their gender identity because they feel that something is off/out of alignment. To those who are cisgender, the feeling is unknowable. It is something that can only be understood by experiencing it, and cannot be adequately explained to those who are cisgender because cisgender people have no frame of reference for it.

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