Gender?

[stopxmotion]

All girl here in every way shape and form, but for some reason I always tend to get along better with the guys O.o

Same!

[mlp4me]

Female and loving it!!

[StoryDreamer]

I'm a lady.

[bewilderness]

Androgynous man of female experience here.  I identified as genderqueer for a long time.  Sometimes I still think it fits.  I seem to be pretty close to the middle of the gender scale. 

Something interesting is that you can have females who have XY chromosomes and males that have XX.  There's even people who have both XY and XX chromosomes.  And I have a friend whose chromosomes are XXY.

[kaninchen]

i am cisgendered and self identified female and very thankful for it. not that another option is lesser than, what i mean is that i am thankful to have always been certain. i've seen several of my beautiful friends go through tw pain of realization and transformation, all coming out even more beautiful because of it. but all the same, i am thankful to have avoided that turmoil.

[mlpfan]

The topic about age ranges got me curious as to what kind of gender spread we got here. Remember when answering that gender =\= assigned sex. Get to clicking the buttons!

looks like we are the only dudes so far:)

[Stuntmang]

The topic about age ranges got me curious as to what kind of gender spread we got here. Remember when answering that gender =\= assigned sex. Get to clicking the buttons!

looks like we are the only dudes so far:)

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

[xkelpiex]

Gender and sex are female for me! One of my ex's came out to me as trans before we broke up, and I know what turmoil they went thrpough with their family before we stopped talking. I honestly think that one of the reasons we broke up was that he was insecure with becoming male in our relationship, as I am usually more attracted to women. I told him it was fine, but a week or so after he came out as a man to me, he broke it off.

[NumiTuziNeru]

Floating around in the space of do not give a flying rodent's posterior.
But I really like skirts.

(ps stuntmang i think i'm in love with your avatar.)

[Neon Sparkle]

Birth sex is Male, and honestly I'm not exactly thrilled with it but I'll live. 

Although I do present as Male, My interests and Personality tend to be more Androgynous. I have a high admiration for females and I am very often inspired and influenced by them. I have always loved colorful, pretty, girly things but I also like some masculine things as well.

What I have more of a problem with is gender stereotyping and people who judge others based on their interests or lifestyle. People should not have to go through hell because someone else doesn't agree with their ways. I should not have to worry about liking stereotypically girly things without being accused of being a homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with it, I'm just not), or being called a pansy, sissy, ect. Liking a particular thing does not make you a weaker person.

[Phekzhen]

Androgynous man of female experience here.  I identified as genderqueer for a long time.  Sometimes I still think it fits.  I seem to be pretty close to the middle of the gender scale. 

Something interesting is that you can have females who have XY chromosomes and males that have XX.  There's even people who have both XY and XX chromosomes.  And I have a friend whose chromosomes are XXY.

True. Genetically, you're a male if you have a Y chromosome, since only certain things are tied to an Y chromosome, and (usually) having one X chromosome makes you much more likely to have certain genetic issues.

You can change how you present yourself, and what's in your pants, but you can't change your chromosomes. So that's the one thing on the gender/sex issue that is (currently) permanent.

I know that XXX is fairly common, and that you can have 4 sex chromosomes. The bare minimum is XO, or just having one X chromosome, and that person would be considered genetically female. You can't have 0 sex chromosomes, because then the embryo just won't develop.

[ZennaBug]

I'm all girl 

[Stuntmang]

Androgynous man of female experience here.  I identified as genderqueer for a long time.  Sometimes I still think it fits.  I seem to be pretty close to the middle of the gender scale. 

Something interesting is that you can have females who have XY chromosomes and males that have XX.  There's even people who have both XY and XX chromosomes.  And I have a friend whose chromosomes are XXY.

True. Genetically, you're a male if you have a Y chromosome, since only certain things are tied to an Y chromosome, and (usually) having one X chromosome makes you much more likely to have certain genetic issues.

You can change how you present yourself, and what's in your pants, but you can't change your chromosomes. So that's the one thing on the gender/sex issue that is (currently) permanent.

I know that XXX is fairly common, and that you can have 4 sex chromosomes. The bare minimum is XO, or just having one X chromosome, and that person would be considered genetically female. You can't have 0 sex chromosomes, because then the embryo just won't develop.

It's important to remember, though, that biological sex and gender are two different things.

[Phekzhen]

It's important to remember, though, that biological sex and gender are two different things.

Oui, but of course.

Isn't biological more of "what parts you have" than "what genes you have" though? Because I've seen people talk about their biological sex referring to being intersex or hermaphroditic, while that's impossible to have, say, intersex genes.

[bewilderness]

It can get a bit confusing at times.  People often use the terms sex and gender interchangeably but they're not the same.  Gender is what's between the ears.

For quite a while I wondered exactly what I was--I knew I wasn't a woman but I did like a lot of stereotypically feminine things...then the day came that I realized I can like stuff like ponies and dolls and sewing and still be a guy.  Big "duh" moment there, lol.