I passed an interesting milestone last night. I had my first (remembered) dream in which I gendered myself female. I think I've gendered myself properly in dreams before, but, since I almost never remember my dreams, I wasn't sure. Mostly, I think I don't have a gender in my dreams. This time, I woke up remembering the dream.
Perhaps this is TMI, but in the dream I found myself walking into a sex toy shop. It was filled with large, hunky men, and I went "Eww!" and quickly turned and left. My friends were waiting for me outside and said, "What were you thinking? It says right here on the sign that it is men's night."
I am sure that a Freudian psychologist would have fun analysing that. But I don't believe in that stuff, and I'm happier just filing it under "Well, that was interesting."
The significant thing for me is that I saw myself as female, that I didn't belong among men, and that my friends also saw me as female. Yay!