I found the following quote:
The question posed is really are we simply superimposing societal stereotypes on "who we are"?Is there really such a sharp biological difference between men and women, a gender dichotomy? Or are gender differences artificially created by social norms so that “feeling like a woman” is itself something artificial? Does it merely mean that you feel comfortable fulfilling a female stereotype? That you have found a “feminine role” where you fit? Even if there is something chemical or physiological in your brain that is somehow female – if you have only ever experienced feeling the way you are (and not the way that, say, a representative sample of people of another gender feel) how do you know that what you feel is “like a woman” rather than just “like you”? I mean, how do you know that what you are feeling is specific to gender rather than to some other aspect of personhood?
I think that my coming to the conclusion that I am more female than male is the result of observations I have made of both genders as they express themselves in our society.
Am I chasing the smoke of others or the reality of me?
What do you think?
Kathryn