I am wrestling with an Idea and it always helps me to hear other points of view. So I would appreciate any thoughtful/insightful/considered comments on this subject.
I attended a meeting that made me think of my dressing in a different light. What is the relationship between dressing and my identity and something called gender identity. I dress, I have dressed most of my life to some degree or other. I will continue to dress. Dressing allows me to experience life differently, To explore life, new ideas and feeling and to express things I can’t as a male. It affects me and how I relate to all aspects of my life. Dressing is part of who I am. It is part of my identity as a person, but is it part of my gender identity.
I am a heto male. I have no intent or desire to transition, I have no desire to dress 24/7 or live as a female. I am “male “and I am comfortable with it. But at times I want to express my feminine aspects. I do admit and accept that at times I want to express myself as I sense a female in our society might, and have these behaviors seen and accepted as such, because, it is part of the person I am. Biologically my identity is male, I think of myself as male, so does that make my gender identity male, and if so, where does dressing and a desire to express as a female fit.
I do have to say on some level I am a complex and complete person and my identity is not defined by gender or biology and I resent being forced to meet a legal and societal definition of me. Please some comments.