Do you 'feel' like a boy or a girl? And where are you on the transgendered spectrum?

[Andrea J]

Now people can just look down and see if they are a boy or a girl and think academically if I have this body I am a boy, if I have that body I am a girl. However for pre-transition transsexuals what they see they are and what they 'feel' or even 'know' they are may be at odds.

So do people in general 'feel' male or female? Do cis-gendered people feel they are the sex they are? Or do they lack any such feeling but are just happy being what they are?

So do you 'feel' like a boy or a girl? And where are you on the transgendered spectrum? Okay this website won't give many cis-gendered answers but at least you'll know what I'm talking about. Ask in most forums and I expect a response like WTF?

EDIT:

A few people have made the point that they don't want to be put under a label. This is understandable. My may main question was meant to be: Do you feel like a boy or a girl and the other part about the transgendered spectrum (though interesting) was mainly to put the answer in context i.e. if you feel you're cis-gendered or TS etc.

[Kimberlyfaye]

The short answer, girl. Long answer, defiantely girl.

[Kate Simmons]

I don't use the "spectrum" Hon. I prefer not to be classified by other people. I'm just myself and my own person.

[Erica2Sweet]

I'm not sure what it is to "feel" like a woman because I've never been a woman to know. So, I suppose I feel like a male who enjoys presenting himself as a female when the opportunity arises.

[Karren H]

I don't use the "spectrum" Hon. I prefer not to be classified by other people. I'm just myself and my own person.

Bingo! .......................................

[laurieg]

Definity feel like a total woman

[Andrea J]

I don't use the "spectrum" Hon. I prefer not to be classified by other people. I'm just myself and my own person.

Good point. Though due to the question it is useful to know if you are a cis-gendered, TS etc.

[Karren H]

If you want to create labels for yourself.... I'll lend you my old Dymo label maker!

[Jorja]

I reach down and feel my arm...... girl. I feel my legs.....girl. I feel my butt..... girl. I must be a girl!

[kimdl93]

if I were on the spectrum with red on one end and blue on the opposite end, I suppose I'd be somewhere in the bluish/purple area...a bit more to the female side of the spectrum

[Aloha Jayne]

For all my life I had guy parts and so I only felt like a guy. (boy). Just a boy with "unusual"'interests. But for the last year after Jayne introduced herself to me, I have begun to discover what it's like to feel like a woman. And now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really felt like a guy. I guess I'm not sure what it's like to feel like either one. But judging from my first 50 years of life, most people don't even think about it and never question whether they feel like one or the other. Unlike me that questions everything.

[Kate Simmons]

If you want to create labels for yourself.... I'll lend you my old Dymo label maker!

Seems like we HAVE to be classified Karr, whether we want to be or not. Evidently you and I never got that memo.

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Andrea, I'm all guy I just like to dress as a lady.

[nikkijo]

all girl.... took me 29 years of torturing myself to see it i dont feel there is a spectrum... its either you know and once you begin to transition you know instantly if its right... or you know instantly that choice was wrong... and thus fail to continue your attempts at transitioning.

[sometimes_miss]

Because of how I was brought up, I feel like I'm supposed to be a girl, dress like a girl, and behave like a girl. But it's incongruent with how I think, how I communicate, how I experience and how I see the world, which is like a genetic male, which I am. Makes for an interesting life.

[whowhatwhen]

I'm not sure how I feel, but I certainly don't internally identify as male anymore.
I recognize that I never should've been born male, and through therapy, I hope to discover if I can continue my life and be happy living as a male with feminine expression, or do I need to transition.

Confusing eh?

[sissystephanie]

Hi Andrea, I'm all guy I just like to dress as a lady.

Since I am a male, and always have been, I have no idea what it is like to e a female! Nor do I care! Like Blue Orchid, I just like to dress as a lady!!

[Marleena]

I reach down and feel my arm...... girl. I feel my legs.....girl. I feel my butt..... girl. I must be a girl!

Marleena reaches down and feel between her legs. Oops.. something wrong here!

[Julie Denier]

I really like being a guy -- perfectly fine with it. I just like dressing up sometimes, too.

[Katie145]

My "spectrum" changes constantly. When I'm watching sports or drinking with my buds, I'm the manliest of manly men. But when I dress up, I can sometimes really feel like a girly girl. There are times I wish I was a woman, and other times I'm glad I'm not. There really is no constant here.

[Erica2Sweet]

...I feel like I'm supposed to be a girl, dress like a girl, and behave like a girl...

Those feelings are definitely something I can identify with.

[cyndigurl45]

My issues were that when I looked at myself in the mirror I couldn't tell if I was boy or girl, I felt like a girl and having been born with a micro - penis I almost looked like a girl but that small sac convinced my parents that I must be a boy, and being born in the 60's a son was very important, latter I had what I was told at age 10 was hernia surgery was actually a radical hysterectomy, I finally got my medical records from the Navy. So you see there really is no one or the other choice.

[Contessa]

I am a crossdressing transexual. I was once just a crossdresser now that one year of fully dressing has gone by I have moved further down the spectrum. I am a girl that looks like a boy sometimes. I look like a girl (gurl) some times to. I am working on looking like a girl all the time with out skirts and dresses and heels. It is a little hard to pick out clothes that seem a bit small but if as a guy I wear a XL I try it as a girl and it is a bit tight. I have to find just the right balance. But still I am wearing girl clothes that I love. I began disliking my boy self as others did surely. I love my purse and I carry it every where. Friends and non friends started to call me names because of my purse. Then the dressing feeling started to spill out of me even when I wasn't dressed. Now I have to dress in girl clothes to feel right and yes that where I should have been all along. I can't go back. I can't.

Tess

[Frédérique]

Do you 'feel' like a boy or a girl? And where are you on the transgendered spectrum?

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[Beverley Sims]

I have the same views as, Frederique, Blue Orchid and Sissy Stephanie.
All man but The art of posing as a female is challenging.