> gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between That seems to be assuming everyone “feels”

> gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between That seems to be assuming everyone “feels” they have a “gender”. Some people may know they have a biological sex, but without having any feelings about that fact. If “gender” is defined in terms of one’s own feelings, does a person who lacks such feelings have one? And I’m not talking about “feeling genderless” (as in a person who calls themselves “agender”), since that’s still a “feeling about gender”-I mean a person for whom “gender” (or “sex”) simply isn’t among the subjects upon which they have feelings about themselves. The idea that “sex” and “gender” are distinguishable is only widespread in certain cultures. A person who comes from a culture which doesn’t commonly distinguish them, the question of what “gender” they “feel” themselves to be may not make any sense give their own cultural understandings-they may know they have a “sex”/“gender”, but to them it may be a given about which it makes no more sense to have feelings than “feeling” one was born in a particular year, or born with whatever colour skin or hair or eyes