Is 'identity' only defined as 'male' or 'female' then?
See, this is where I have a slight issue. I've seen a tendency for people to be black and white about gender: you're either male 'or' female but this seems to me to fall into the very trap that transgender people want to avoid. I can understand it, if you're born into what you're sure is the wrong body you might be pretty evangelical about the transition: hence, especially if you look back at posts ten years ago, people could be adamant and strong that SRS was the only way to go, that anything less was a betrayal. I don't think most people do think like that anymore, certainly not on this forum. To me just as black and white are misleading terms: there are a thousand times a thousand shades of colour, so there are a thousand times a thousand varieties of gender. We're not defined by whether or not something dangles down below, to put it crudely.
Incidentally, since I used the colour analogy this is also a pitfall that those who want to categorise themselves (for understandable historical reasons) can fall into. The reality, in my view, is that the world is kaleidoscopic, and I resist boxing, labels and categories which are often just means to control, or for people to help self-identify (for good reasons).
Having said that, I may change my avatar setting. I feel I'm female in a male body 😀
