[BigDee]

No fair ( she said stamping her feet and pouting).
I want to just answer "yes"

In the book, Fallen Angels by Niven, Pournelle and Flynn there is a character, who on a government form, under Sex wrote in "Yes", instead of checking Male or Female.

As to what I would choose, I will have to check in to the definitions of the options.

BigDave

[GoneGirl]

Excellent job as usual Clara! Awesome list, for the new folks out there can you give descriptive tags for the lesser known ones,

i.e.
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Transmasculine

Lotus, mistress, I can't take credit for the list. It's courtesy of ABC News. LOL!

I thought this description of Androgyne from

http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Androgyne was interesting. Fits some here we all know and love pretty well:

Androgyne is a non-binary gender identity. Androgynes may possess traits that are simultaneously feminine and masculine, or neither. Some androgynes have adopted an androgynous psychological gender identity, while some may still be questioning their gender or live with the social gender identity assigned to them at birth. Western society currently recognizes no set gender roles for androgynes.

Because androgynes are gender non-conforming, they are genderqueer. Genderqueer is sometimes categorized as 'trans', and sometmes seen as a separate category entirely. Androgynes are not typically crossdressers, however they may use some clothes of the other sex to communicate their mixed-gender status. The term mixed-gender is used by some to avoid a reference to the gender binary, while others may use similar terms such as multigender, gender fluid, polygender, intergender and pangender.

Some androgynes may also identify as genderqueer or gender benders, particularly if they participate in social activism against the gender binary.

While androgynes may express more femininity or masculinity from day to day due to mood or societal expectations, they generally don't switch between distinct masculine and feminine personas in the way that bigenders do. An androgyne is someone with a single gender that combines femininity with masculinity, while bigenders have two separate genders (one feminine, one masculine). An androgyne is a third gender distinct from a man or a woman, which can still encompass both man and woman.

Androgynes can be of any physical sex, including male, female or intersex

Clara

[Samantha Rogers]

Clara, I guess (though you know how I feel about labels...LOL) that just a few moths ago I would have leaned more toward calling myself "androgyne", ...now...well, I don't know where this train is going...LOL. I think, all of that was, for me, just a way of trying to deal with confusion. Despite the trouble it is causing, my dawning understanding has me reassessing...and though frightening, it feels really really good.

[annabolton]

If you want to be technical Im somewhere between genderqueer and Trans woman... transfeminine is the best term for me I guess.

[GoneGirl]

If you want to be technical Im somewhere between genderqueer and Trans woman... transfeminine is the best term for me I guess.

Transfeminine. Hmmm, I like the sound of that, Anna. Do you dress semi-feminine, too?

Clara

[annabolton]

I used to dress "semi feminine" but now im "full on femme" living as a girl most of the time

[GoneGirl]

I used to dress "semi feminine" but now im "full on femme" living as a girl most of the time

How nice, Anna, congratulations. I hope you'll give us a taste of your feminine dressing style in the Fashion Show thread. Love to see it. I get so much out of seeing what others have been able to accomplish en femme. I've got some new outfits to show, too.


Clara

[Jamie Lee]

I'm androgynous right now cause I've been called a girl and mistaken as a girl quite a few times but I have some masculine features hoping to be bi gender in the future

[Missed Miss]

I'm not telling them anything else!! Let `em guess!! Besides, the FBI uses FB as their main source to research people they want to spy on!!

[GoneGirl]

I'm not telling them anything else!! Let `em guess!! Besides, the FBI uses FB as their main source to research people they want to spy on!!

I don't use Facebook either. I just found it interesting that lately, across the country, and elsewhere for that matter, gender awareness is becoming more and more important. Dare I say de riqueur?

I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit this, but the idea that a bio-male, like me, could consciously or subconsciously identify as female was not in my vocabulary a year ago. Yes, I knew about Renee Richards and a transwoman at my place of employment; I stumbled on 'shemales' on porn sites, but I viewed those instances as oddities so rare as not to be worth serious thought. Now I see degrees of crossgenderism all over the place, aside from within the limits of my own skin and the girls here at BN. Makes me wonder how many other aspects of this shrinking world are oblivious to me.

I look at people differently now. I see people not as being male or female, but as falling on a gender scale from manly-man to girly-girl. I wonder how many are aware of their own true gender identity, knowing the powerful capacity of the human mind to delude itself.

We, here at this forum, have for years, or just recently, discovered that our sense of gender is not black and white, this or that, but a unique blending of many flavors of what it means to be a man or a woman physically, emotionally, and intellectually.

So my question, "What's your gender?" is not meant to be a matter of labeling oneself, as it is to sort out those aspects of your self-image that are being revealed slowly or at an alarming rate. It's equivalent to asking, "Who am I?"

After more than six decades, you'd think I know who I am, but clearly that's not the case, and the discoveries of each passing day are both reassuring and unsettling for me.

Clara