I have been thinking about my gender identity for a very long time...for a while I always considered myself to be a transgender woman, but recently, I have considered myself not only a transgender woman, but also bigendered as well. Consider this:

What if we as people, instead of having one singular identity, we had a dominant gender identity, and a minor gender identity? For example: I consider myself mostly female. However, there are still aspects about me that are male and I will not be able to change this. For that reason, although I prefer female pronouns because I mostly identify with the female gender, however I still feel as if part of me is male as well and that will never change.

I am curious to know what everyone else's thoughts are on this.

Why can not one be female with also some male traits and just drop the labels

I agree with you both.

When did we start making our genders based on our character and personality?

I'm actually a little on the GQ side, but ID publicly as a woman simply because it's easier. I have some traits still that some might consider 'manly' - but it's not enough to consider it an 'identity' of it's own, it's merely a part of who I am..

I have a nasty suspicion that assigning 'traits' their own 'identity' is a road to hell..

The thought of myself being at all male bothers me on a deep level.

I suppose that this is an attempt on my part to try and make sense of the dysphoria I suffer from....

I believe that most people are binary - that they have had a gender identity and a body that matches and generally don't think twice about it.

But the experience of living with a gender identity that doesn't match either our bodies or our presentation is experienced in a variety of ways. Some of us feel genderfluid, bigender, agender, third gender, two-spirit, androgynous, while others feel like a binary member of our identified gender.

There are many posts in the non binary section from those of us who experience gender in multidimensional ways

Come and play in the forest dear

there are many answers throughout the threads there/here

The truth is inside you

Blessings and rainbows