Do you have a sense of gender identity?

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I don't either. If I were to change my sex it wouldn't make a difference. I feel I am pangendered. I don't really see myself as having a gender, but sometimes I feel I am Male and sometimes I feel I am female.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangender

This is me to a tee. In general I feel I am either both or a third gender.

I'm biologically female, but I don't really fit into either of the "genders". I don't see myself as feminine, nor as particularly masculine, and I certainly don't feel like I am a male. I just sort of "am". I guess that makes me more androgyneous. I'm kind of an asexual lesbian. I think that if I switched bodies overnight it wouldn't be any different. I wouldn't fit as a male either. But yeah, neat to see that lots of you feel the same way I do, of being biologically one way but not actually either. I just am. I'm me. I like powertools and knitting... where does that put me, anyway?

Yes I feel female and would not want to be male. However, I am nothing like 99% of the women I meet and I have been told this by many people. My boyfriend says I act like a man and only have a few feminine characteristics (though I look feminine!). I find it very hard to relate to women too and most of my friends are male.

I relate.

I've a transgender man. I've never felt like a girl. It took me a long time to figure out I was a guy, since I didn't have a strong gender identity beyond "not girl", and I never got along with guys more than I got along with girls.

GI Joe kicks ass!

I guess that makes me masculine and macho.

I definitely feel male, but then again, I don't have a lot to relate it against since I've only lived once and this is my only perspective.

I don't conform to many of the male gender stereotypes. People who outwardly conform to gender stereotypes in demeanor (both men and women) I find terribly unattractive. At the core, though, I'm definitely physically attracted more to women than men, but probably more attracted to men than most men (but I am definitely straight).

I don't care much to be honest. I don't care if I'm masculine or feminine. I do what I want to do, free from perceived gender expectations.

I'm neither male nor female, I am me.

I have always felt sorta neither here nor there...when I was very little though, I identified more strongly with boys...Girls were mysterious heavily guarded creatures who's parents didn't like me.

In some ways I am very girly (clothing, behaviour, my friends are female), but I lack any desire to get married and have babies, find it difficult to understand such a desire, don't have this need to look pretty or sexually attractive, don't think men are a different species, not attracted to guys really, I'm quite agressive/argumentative and stubborn which are generally more masculine traits - women tend to agree and be sociable.
I don't understand and don't like gender roles.

Like poopylungstuffing, I was like a boy when I was little. I played with toy cars and trains, not dolls. My friends were boys, back then. My parents tell me my sister made me into a girl, lol. When she was old enough to play with, I played with dolls and stuff because that's what she did.

I don't really understand the concept of the whole gender idea.

I'm pretty obviously a male. Sure, I don't fit the general stereotype of male behavior, but, in the end, I still have a penis.

I am technically female but inside I have no gender, I'm just a person.

I can relate to what's being said here about not placing too much value on gender. I think a lot of people make too much of an issue out of gender in deciding what's fit "for guys" or "for girls". I'm not androgynous, but I do have an ever so slight fascination with androgyny. But in my heart, I think I'm more gender-neutral.

Wow, I feel exactly the same way and have never found anybody else who agrees with me. Most people seem confused by the idea. (Conversely, I'm confused by the idea of a gender identity.)

I know how you mean.

So many things are associated with being female that are not innate and not an integral part of being female.

Yet if you don't show those traits, you're vilified.

Why do I have to shave my legs whether I feel like it or not, walk with my feet in a straight line so that my hips go this way and that, not do my own heavy lifting, etc?

Because 'that's what you do'. Screw that.

I know how you mean.

So many things are associated with being female that are not innate and not an integral part of being female.

Yet if you don't show those traits, you're vilified.

Why do I have to shave my legs whether I feel like it or not, walk with my feet in a straight line so that my hips go this way and that, not do my own heavy lifting, etc?

Because 'that's what you do'. Screw that.