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I'd say gender neutral.

I agree with Bun

Yeah gender neutral is quite likely, I just don't know how to determine if that's all it is or if I feel more like a male than a female psychologically. Because I've only ever tried just accepting the female gender identity and then just not conforming to that at all since it did not feel like me. But I am kind of worried about how people would react if I wanted to give identifying as a male a try.........I don't know I've heard you have to experience different things to really be sure how you feel about it.

its just confusing I guess.......and I don't want to go claiming a title that doesn't fit before I am sure about things.

I don't know if it has been suggested, I don't want to read the whole thread but how about an "Androgyne", I define my self as one. Also for your asexuality there is this site called asexuality.org it is filled with Aspies as well

You could just realize you are a person with Asperger's and gender dysphoria is common to anybody with Asperger's? (after all I was born male and have similar feelings about being male) If you just let go of worrying about labels, it all becomes intuitive. In the end, you are what you are, and no label will change that.

Well I don't know if it is gender dysphoria, I would have to look more into that to even be sure. Also I don't feel I am really over-analyzing it, I could be though but the main thing is I just want to understand myself I guess. The first time I even thought about any of this was when I was 15, and kept getting ' are you a boy or girl?' from people then I just kinda tried not thinking about it or anything but yeah clearly that didn't really work....But yeah that is what I am thinking the only way to really know is to try things and see what feels comfortable

Here's the thing.
You don't HAVE to be a boy or a girl. I mean, anatomically, you're male or female or herm/inter/whatevs. Everyone is.
But what you are doesn't have to have anything to do with who you are.
You can just be you.
And anyone who doesn't like it can go jump in a lake.

All I can say to that is, where is the proof that everyone has one? And is that a psychological claim or a neurological claim?


Again, where is the proof? What you are saying is not actually possible because brains don't have a sex! It's bodies that have sex. How many times do I have to repeat it? It's like saying someone has the hair of the opposite sex, or the nose of the opposite sex. No amount of features of the mind that are typical of the opposite sex make the mind "belong to the opposite sex." There is no aspect, or group of aspects, of the mind that anyone can point to and say, "oh yes, that is definitely a male mind," especially if it is something that a female
has experienced! If females have the experience of phantom penii and/or whatever else may go with GID, then there is no reason to call that experience having a mind that "belongs to the opposite sex" (male) because the thoughts and experiences are occurring in the mind of a female! They may be extremely atypical female mental experiences, but they are certainly not exclusively male mental experiences if a female human being is having them.

So these people with GID you mentioned, JUST BY EXISTING, they prove that there is no such thing as a male brain or a female brain. If there was really such a thing as a male brain, then only males would have it (and same with the female brain), otherwise, it makes no sense to call it a "male" brain...except in the case where the intention is to conflate the idea that males TYPICALLY have a certain mental experience with the idea that they ALWAYS have a certain mental experience and women don't, thus reinforcing the status quo like I've already mentioned before, blah blah blah.

Of course, by "brain," I assume that you mean "mind" and not physical brain matter from the way you are describing it.


More gender role stereotypes. Not all males like to thrust during sex (or think about it), and plenty of females do, without having a male "gender identity." The issue with penetration is similar.

You can repeat that as often as you want, but that won't make it true. There is a number of structural differences between the male and the female brain. Let me do a Google search for you:
https://www.google.com/search?q=differe ... le%20brain

^ Here you'll find dozens upon dozens of articles and papers on neurological gender differences. I know that it's currently fashionable to think men and women are identical in all regards, including brain anatomy. But that is of course utter nonsense. It should be self-evident to anybody with half a brain, no matter if a male or female one, that the brains of both sexes have to be different, since the brain controls everything from endocrine function and hormone levels to reproductive behavior.



The sex of the body and the sex of the brain (a.k.a. gender identity) don't have to be identical, as I've already pointed out. Which explains GID. Research has shown that gays and lesbians also possess a neurological anatomy which resembles that of the opposite sex (link).



Actually, the existence of people with GID proves that brains indeed have a sex (which sometimes doesn't match a person's reproductive system). If there was no neurological sex (gender identity), there would be no GID.



When I say brain, I mean brain. You know, the part of the body that controls thoughts, emotions and behavior, among other things. It is very much a physical organ, and there is nothing non-physical connected to our bodies that does any thinking.

Pretty much right on with everything else as well, this is even what I learned when I took sociology before dropping out of college.

That's a good point. There are countless genes that code for sexual characteristics, and intersex conditions show that these genes can code for two different sexes in the same person. If a person can be born with both male and female reproductive organs, the same can happen in terms of neurological development. A brain can have mixed gender traits, as well as a gender that doesn't match the sex of the remaining body.