Quote from: Pica Pica on March 29, 2008, 08:57:51 PM
i'd like to meet this average androgyne.
Just as long as there weren't too many of them. That would be boring.

Lost & Confused: you are not alone in feeling that way. Some of us do feel uncomfortable about looking (or starting to look) too masculine (or feminine, as the case may be), and some of us still wonder where we fit in, if ever we do. Some transsexuals and cross-dressers share some of these feelings, but it seems that especially the question of fitting in is more common for androgynes than the rest. This isn't surprising, really, once you think it through.
There are two things that might help here. One is to consider the social aspects of gender as separate from the physical aspects of sex -- whatever way you feel about your body doesn't
have to match the way you feel about your social role. Androgyne is a gender, and most of us who identify with it do not have a visible physical intersex condition. The other thing is to consider gender (and sex, too) as a grouping of separate traits, and realise that you don't have to take
all the traits (either physical or social) associated with 'male', but are instead free to figure out which ones are important to you.
Nfr