[PleasantlyFascinated]

Wow! You all sure have me thinking about things I’ve merely come to accept about myself. The more I read here, the less clear it is to me where I'm currently keeping my gender identity, either real or assumed.

For most of my adult life, I've felt that the core self does not have a gender. I think that gender identity is a matter of social programming and biological/hormonal functions.
I think that hormonally, we have a lot of mutable possibilities available to us. Socially, however, we are mostly kept in chains, and we become our own prison guards, until we are brave enough to question our own beliefs.

I'm wondering what is the most comprehensive and current psychological test that is actually useful for gender evaluation/ categorization. The Kinsey scale and the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid are so sophomoric as to be ludicrous. Certainly there ought to be a better guide, to aid in self evaluation.

I’m very interested to understand how I am differentiated, compared to others. I’ve always known I am a little different, but maybe I'm a lot different, and don't know it.

I think that shifting gender identity fuels the drive for NBE. Also, I would believe that hormonal changes caused by NBE alter the internal environment through which the self is experienced. Each affects the other. Certainly this is how I experience it.

My own experience of NBE is not something I've actively ever set out to do, unless you count heavy pectoral workouts in order to seem like I've got them. But then, gynecomastia just sort of happens to me if I'm not careful, and my female side has lately been temping me to let 'em loose.