Ok, now I get it! At last I understand what is meant by “gender identity.” One Justin Hancock created a chart last year that explains it all.
You get to choose your gender your gender identity, whether you are a he/she/they or zie and you get to choose how you want to do your own gender. This is true no matter what body you may have, or what chromosomes you may have or how you feel about your body.
You can work out your gender by learning some more about different identities and seeing if any of those fit you, or you can try to understand your own unique gender for you. Hopefully you will find this useful.
Gender Scales
First of all have a look at these scales.
I did. I looked, and saw, and all was explained.
look masculine………………….Look feminine
rational………..emotional
tough………soft
takes charge…………takes part
independent…………sharer
head strong……….sensitive
active……….passive
outgoing…………shy
There you have it – that’s gender, and where you place yourself on that dotted line is your Gender Identity. We know which is meant to be which because of the helpful “masculine…..feminine” on the first line.
Now, you may have thought that all those adjectives (plus one pair of verbs + adjective) were simply more or less crude descriptions of personality, character, habits, and the like – but no no no, those are Gender Identifiers on a highly technical scientific chart of Gender Scales. Just plot your position on each line and then…um…I guess tell us in great detail what your position is on each, so that we will understand exactly, I mean exactly, what your Gender Identity is.
Nailed it.