Transition and still identify to a certain extent as bigender...?

[irish_deutsch]

I have always identified not just as Transgender but Transsexual....but you know what, the more I research gender the less respect I have for gender boundaries....or boundaries between people in general.....I honestly feel that so much is conditioned and socially constructed....and how exactly I feel about my own identity varies depending on the

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[ex_drakyn]

I'm not genderqueer, but I know a number of people who identify as both transsexual and genderqueer (or a similar identity). We basically see transsexual as being about your sex and genderqueer (or, bigender, etc) as being about your gender.

Cedar sort of talks about this here, though the post is about proposing to re-define transgender/transsexual/cisgender/cissexual.

[aredridel]

Yell yes.

[peaceofpie]

*yells, "YES!!"* :D

[irish_deutsch]

Thanks...just read the link and it is interesting....although I've read it before can someone please redefine the distinction between sex and gender? so I could be male bodied, therefore of the male sex and female gender?. My dream...which I won't see..is of a society, not necessarily where gender is abolished...but where people are free to choose their own identity...let that be male or female if they wish..but allowing others to identify otherwise if they wish...

[nasha_sasha]

Gender is a social stereotype ("girls cry, boys fight")
Sex is biology (your chromosome set)

You can't 'choose' your biology. But you can identify yourself as different gender, nothing 'wrong' with that.

[badoingdoing]

I think sex is a lot more complicated than just chromosomes. I consider it to include chromosomes, yes, but also the hormones in your blood and the shape of your anatomy and things. Some of this stuff is changeable, some of it not, but it presents a much less binary view of sex in general.

[andrajames]

I think saying "Gender is a social stereotype" is too broad. Gender identity doesn't have to have anything to do with social stereotypes (there are plenty of people who firmly identify female while being rather masculine and vice versa)

[hrolleif]

I think a lot of the time I feel as though I have no gender at all.

[misguidance]

I have found that now I am living in my chosen gender (male) I have less days where I 'feel female,' if that makes sense. However, I do get more days where I worry about how masculine I act.

I think gender fluidity exists for everyone to a certain extent, but weather or not it dissipates after transitioning depends on the indevidual. I would expect that it does for some, but not for others.