What percentage of you is female?

[im-sparkles]

I am about 90% female. I play the role of a male every day but my mind is in a total different place

[Adriana Moretti]

last time i checked down below...I am 100% male....oh...you meant mentally....silly me......LOL

[LIKETODRESS2]

For what ever reason i was borned wiht male parts. MY mental part I would say 80. Gettingh sronger ever day

[Ashley Wray]

I have to 2nd what Adriana said!

[Isabella Ross]

Depends which way you look at it. I spend 75% in a man's world. But I think girly thoughts about 75% of the time. And the older I get...

[susmitha]

I think I am about 80% female now. But I do not want to lose my male parts. It is a paradox. I do not like the male role in the bed room.

[Adriana]

I would guess 75% or so, but not sure if that fluctuates. There are times where I'm happy to be covered in grease and under a car, but then there are times I cant wait to slip into some 4" heels and a cute dress :)

[Sarah Doepner]

I don't know. There are a lot of things I do as a male that seem to be just fine, even though they seem to be things associated with women. My wife used to say that it was those feminine things that made me such a good husband and father, so I've kind of lost track of what is actually male and what is female.

[Candice Mae]

How can you rate your self on something that you've never been and never will be that you have based on societies and your own ideal of what being female is? What percentage of you is alien? Dog? Cat? What is being female even defined as? Any GG's want to offer their take? Or here's a question for your selves what is it to be male? Even being a TS I will never know what being female is only what it is like to be me. Into days world (well not all countries, but this is not a time or place for that discussion...) people are free to be who they want to be their not pressured into what society expects them to be. The CD community wants to be accepted for who they are, but they them selves can not accept that females do everything they do. I understand that the majority of members here are from a different generation then me, but it doesn't take much to see that who and what people are is not dependent or determined on their gender. There's stay at home Dads, male nurses, receptionists, and flight attendants ect... There's female mechanics, truck drivers, construction workers ext... I know Men that are scared of any insects and the out doors and I know Women that have pet spiders and will jump at any chance to go camping/hunting/fishing.

[LelaK]

The question we need to ask eventually is: Which parts do you accept for your ideal identity?

I'd like a totally feminine body, with small boobs, but neither type of sex organ (both are unattractive), I'd just want to keep the male orgasm; I don't like macho or effeminate behavior for myself; I like feminine caring and maybe masculine logic.

That might come to 80-90% feminine.

[mechamoose]

Genetically, I am undeniably, unforgivingly male.

I'm a girl inside, but my body doesn't support that.

I have kids & grand-kids. I'm the cook, the nurturer, the decorator, the empath. I'm also the one who kills spiders and moves furniture.

Self perception and role-wise, I'd say I'm 90% female. Body-wise, I'm 90% male.

(Transition? No, not a chance. It would be like putting lace trim on a dump truck and calling it "pretty")

- MM

[Rachelakld]

In shopping centers with cloth shops - mentally 90% female (but mostly dressed yucky)
At the mechanics - mentally 30% female, (but always dress 100% pretty)
Bored at home - mentally 80% female and 50% dressed pretty (no wig or makeup)
Tiling the kitchen floor tonight - mentally 10% female and 90% upset I can't dress pretty.

[mechamoose]

Tiling the kitchen floor tonight - mentally 10% female and 90% upset I can't dress pretty.

I feel that, honey!

You do what is expected, regardless of how you feel.

Lay that grout and swish it, sweetie!

- MM

[amy101]

I'm about the same 90% I'm usually only in drab at work these days

[Christen]

Another one for 100% blokey. But do spend a lot of time thinking about what if ..
And the older I get..., and Bridgette, yeah, what is it about age and wanting just a bit more of the girl ..

Christen x

[Tinkerbell-GG]

How can you rate your self on something that you've never been and never will be that you have based on societies and your own ideal of what being female is? What percentage of you is alien? Dog? Cat? What is being female even defined as? Any GG's want to offer their take? Or here's a question for your selves what is it to be male? .

This is the running thread here though, isn't it? It's partly why someone like myself will never understand crossdressing, or the motives behind it. I have never felt male or female. I just exist as me. Nothing more. I dare say most people feel like this - except the crossdresser. Why is this? Why do they feel their gender so uniquely from the rest of us? In fact, why do they feel their gender at all??

The billion dollar question, I guess. :) I suspect this is just some genetic anomaly. But I agree with you - feeling female is subjective unless you are one...and here's the head spin...we females just feel like people!! So what exactly does anyone mean when they say they feel female or male? I'd say many of the women I know are NOT naturally nurturing. And few like to cook. Or clean. Or decorate. Such cliches!

So what would cause a person to feel 90% female and want to spend all day knitting but their 10% male side makes them tile the floor?? Who knows. This is not based in any reality I have lived as I would happily do both and never even think of changing outfits, but it's reality for so many here that they can't knit without wearing a dress so maybe crossdressers really do have different brain wiring or something?

And I don't say any of this in a judgemental way. It just is. But it's hard as a female to hear these cliches and not feel like crossdressing is just men insulting women. I mean, we are in the armed forces, for crying out loud. We run businesses and countries and we would run the world if we could. We are more than cooking, nurturing and decor!!!

Feminist here, for the record. Rant over :)

[Kate Simmons]

That would have to depend on our degree of evolution as a person. :)

[Donnagirl]

By use of the scientific measure of 'ability to multitask'.... 100% male... And I had to hold my breath to type this!!!

[Anna H]

the percentage that i'm wearing is 1000% female.

if i can get to 2000% i will. i'm working on that....lol!

:)

[Marcelle]

If I have to answer the OP question "What percentage of you is female?" then the answer is a big fat zero percent. :eek:

I am male, genetically and phenotypically . . . no debating that issue. Now when dressed do I suddenly transform in a woman? Well, I may alter my voice, mannerisms and walk to present more female but again I am still 100 percent male. I know a bit of a conundrum and why dress as a girl when I don't feel like a girl? Well, for me it is not about feeling like a girl anymore than it is about feeling like a boy . . . it is about feeling like me regardless of how I am dressed but underneath still 100% male. :battingeyelashes:

Hugs

Isha

[Lynn Marie]

Exactly 47.357%

[Martha G]

If I have to answer the OP question "What percentage of you is female?" then the answer is a big fat zero percent. :eek:

I am male, genetically and phenotypically . . . no debating that issue. Now when dressed do I suddenly transform in a woman? Well, I may alter my voice, mannerisms and walk to present more female but again I am still 100 percent male. I know a bit of a conundrum and why dress as a girl when I don't feel like a girl? Well, for me it is not about feeling like a girl anymore than it is about feeling like a boy . . . it is about feeling like me regardless of how I am dressed but underneath still 100% male. :battingeyelashes:

Hugs

Isha

I agree with Isha 100%.

[kimdl93]

Exactly 47.357%

What a coincidence! Me too!

[sometimes_miss]

It's really hard to say; so much of what we do in day to day life is the same behavior no matter which gender you are. We tend to forget that. So most of our behavior is mostly asexual. It's the ten or so percent of the behaviors that make the difference. For while you may spend the whole day dressed as a girl, pretty much most of what you do is all the same as when you were dressed as a guy. I discovered this and it made a huge change in how I saw my life, and made it easier to deal with spending my time out in the world as a guy. a little example: Wake up the same. roll over the same. stand up the same. walk to the bathroom the same. Pee or poop as you wish, but it comes out the same. Wash hands the same. Shower the same. might alter for hair or lack of. Dry off the same. Dressing may vary. Toast bread the same, butter it the same, jelly etc.. Fry eggs the same. open fridge the same. Open OJ the same, pour the same. Prepare coffee the same. Yes, much of it is automatic behavior, but you get the point. Not much of what we do is specific to gender.

[Ressie]

It's my genetic male brain that decides if I want to pretend to be a female for a while. Pretending would mean wearing women's clothing, jewelry, wig, makeup etc. But I may still feel like a man in a dress. My male brain has to trick itself into seeing a female in the mirror and achieving that trick gets more difficult each time. My male brain knows it's been fooled many times!

The notion of being X% female doesn't compute with me. There's no known algorithm is there?

[CynthiaD]

100% female. But I can pretend to be 100% male any time I want.

[noeleena]

Hi,

Hard wired female , what %, 98. why , well i thought some time ago i was about 70 % and male about 50 % i know this is not maths, well im not as male mind wise as i thought,

As i grow into being a woman i saw i knew less about males than i first thought, plus as i was growing it became clear my mind was not surporting what is a male , it was what i had been told not what i was from birth ,

Yes i accept i had to learn under men and do much in my work as men would , yet i did not relate to or with men as many here would say they do, i grow up in a male world , i just did not become part of that ,

i rebelled against men and hated being around them yet had to force my self to learn from them, yes i worked under some lovely men they were quite neat really ,

Even so , i was female just one of those little details you live with till your body says enough, its time to step away from the mens world , and i did .so, female 98 %.

...noeleena...

[michelleddg]

I'm a boy
I'm a boy
But my mom won't admit it
I'm a boy
I'm a boy
But if I say I am I get it

Hugs, Michelle

[Katey888]

This is the running thread here though, isn't it? It's partly why someone like myself will never understand crossdressing, or the motives behind it. I have never felt male or female. I just exist as me. Nothing more. I dare say most people feel like this - except the crossdresser. Why is this? Why do they feel their gender so uniquely from the rest of us? In fact, why do they feel their gender at all??


Tinks, you're not alone in this babe! I don't get it either... In fact there are times when I feel like a fraud (as if being a fraudulent version of a fraudulent facsimile was understandable...) because I rarely feel 'female'. I can and do feel more feminine when dressed, and therein lies the distinction. I don't say folks here are not being honest about their own feelings - I just don't understand it...

And you're not ranting about the stereotyping that still goes on... I'm frankly surprised that I see it as often as I do here on forum, for women, gays, TS, etc. but it's the power of societal conditioning that does that... Oh, and occasionally men being dicks too... :D

Just male for me, but like looking girly and femininely sexy from time to time... ;)

Katey x

[BillieAnneJean]

I am 100% male except part of the time, maybe one day a week, I am 37.823% female. So I am a 137.823% person. Those who never tried CDing are stuck with at best 100%.

I am surprised that more guys don't do this.

SUCH FUN!

[mechamoose]

Just male for me, but like looking girly and femininely sexy from time to time... ;)

That actually surprises me, dear.

I *love* pretties. WAY outside of what is 'normal'. (guys do earrings and foundation now. Mascara? not so much)

Who are *YOU*?

Why should you be apologetic for that?


Check in Attendant: Mr. Rhod, you are going to have to assume your individual position.
DJ Ruby Rhod: I don't want one position, I want all positions!

I want *all* positions. Why is that so strange?

- MM

[Confucius]

All I know is how to be me.

Wherever I go, and whatever I do, I am still me. I do not know what it means to FEEL male or FEEL female. I can only be a human. What I wear is inconsequential.

[MsVal]

At one time I was quite aware of the difference. As I grow into accepting and, perhaps one day embracing this femininity, I find that the gender boundaries fade away. There doesn't seem to be a clear demarcation between masculine and feminine. Instead, there seems to be growing sense of "me" as just a person with another range of emotions.

Best wishes
MsVal

[DonnaT]

An online 'test' said 58%.

[hope springs]

Tinkerbell. When assigning a percentag here is what came to mind. Everyone i know has said gender is spectrum. So let us assign numeric values to said spectrum.

0% = hyper masculine/feminine. Insert whatever steroetypes you want here

50% = Androgynous - never considered your gender, nor the differences among the sexes. Do what ya want, where ya want regardless of gender norms

100% = highly gender dysphoric - why is gods name was i born in this body? Get me out of this yucky thing asap.

When reading the OPs question this is the spectrum and percentages that popped in my head. Id imagine most operate just below 50%. I would guess most here fall in the 50% - 100% range. So I think the OP was trying to ascertain if we are mostly thinking about transition, dont consider gender at all or something in between. I see read your post Tinkerbell and it seemed angry, like you were annoyed and pounded the keys as you typed. We dont all understand this thing either. You said your not judging, but i felt very judged and a little dismissed by it. However i always appreciate your insightful posts, even in thus thread. Big hug

[suchacutie]

There are some quantitative answers to this question, but the answers are not easy to measure. The literature is full of articles and monograph summaries of studies documenting statistical differences in gender in many areas of life, from organizational differences, responses to stress, analytical protocols, and the like. The 'venus vs. mars' view of gender interaction came from this body of work. Of course, these results are population studies and are statistical statements, not ones that state 'every male' does this or 'every female' does that. I presume this is what the OP refers to.

Since we don't submit ourselves to a research study, our answer to the OP must be subjective based upon our experience and our knowledge of the literature.

[Tina_gm]

I just exist as me. Nothing more. I dare say most people feel like this - except the crossdresser. Why is this? Why do they feel their gender so uniquely from the rest of us? In fact, why do they feel their gender at all?I believe I may have an answer to this.

Why I think many CDers "feel" gender is because our gender inside is not a match or at least a perfect one of the outside. A fish never feels wet. Yet an animal that spends time both in water and out will recognize the difference between wet and dry. Those of us who reside somewhere, anywhere in the TG spectrum "feel" our gender because it is different than our physical selves. Also because society as a whole views it negatively.

[mechamoose]

a fish never feels wet. Yet an animal that spends time both in water and out will recognize the difference between wet and dry.

+1

- mm

[Cheryl T]

I'm no good with math...I'll let you know after I get off the phone with Stephen Hawking....

[Tina_gm]

Realized I haven't answered the question. And I truly do not have an answer.... but somewhere in a 50% range, I think.

[Kris Avery]

The question we need to ask eventually is: Which parts do you accept for your ideal identity?

I'd like a totally feminine body, with small boobs, but neither type of sex organ (both are unattractive), I'd just want to keep the male orgasm; I don't like macho or effeminate behavior for myself; I like feminine caring and maybe masculine logic.

That might come to 80-90% feminine.

That's awesome. I'm in the same boat 90% for me too. Equally, I'm not ever prepared to saw anything off. BUT: I wouldn't mind gaining a slightly bigger chest and have way less natural hair :daydreaming:

[Seana Summer]

I am 100% male.

I may dress like a girl from time to time, but beneath the nylons and chiffon, the lace and the silk........I am still a guy.......and I always will be. I think the mannerisms and mindset associated with being male or female overlap enough where you can be in a middle ground and be true to yourself. You can be nurturing, kind, modest, well kept and polite and be male (GM). You can be rude, loud, aggressive, obnoxious and unshaven and be female (GG).

Or maybe once again I missed the point of this thread...

As a philosopher once said "I yam what I yam" .........or was that Popeye:lol:

[Emi_]

The last time I checked under the skirt, I was still 100% male, or does clothing count as some percentage of my total person?

[Tinkerbell-GG]

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I see read your post Tinkerbell and it seemed angry, like you were annoyed and pounded the keys as you typed. We dont all understand this thing either. You said your not judging, but i felt very judged and a little dismissed by it. However i always appreciate your insightful posts, even in thus thread. Big hug

Actually, Katy picked up on the part that annoyed me and yep, it still does! It's not the gender percentages you all come up with as like I said, it just is. I take your word that gender is different for you and while I might never understand it, I accept it and even appreciate the human difference. What I can't stand are the cliches here. The idea that because men like to cook or have a nurturing side, this is their female side in action. This is a seriously insulting idea and it runs rampant here time and again.

I'm just doing my feminist duty and reminding y'all that women are not a set of activities. If you like decor or painting or listening to music and you're not sporty, you are no more female than the guy who shoots things and plays sport. Women can be both, for the record. So can men!! This should all be obvious in this day and age of equality, but it seems many here missed the newsletter!

Otherwise, nope, I'm not upset. I enjoy reading all your comments too. :)

[LilSissyStevie]

The question is vague because I don't know whether you mean female as a gender or a sex. I'm biologically a male because I have that Y chromosome and that all but useless appendage.


... it's hard as a female to hear these cliches and not feel like crossdressing is just men insulting women. I mean, we are in the armed forces, for crying out loud. We run businesses and countries and we would run the world if we could. We are more than cooking, nurturing and decor!!!

Feminist here, for the record. Rant over :)

It would be easy to be offended if you thought that it was really about "being a woman" in whole or part. But what if it's not? What if it's really about expressing only those longings that are off limits to masculinity. What do you call a guy that is sensitive, caring, nurturing, non-aggressive, likes to wear pretty things, wants to take the passive role sexually, and etc.? A sissy. It is far more palatable for most men to frame these longings as coming from some kind of "feminine side" or "inner woman" than to admit to sissyness. If you don't believe it, start a thread asking "Are you a sissy?" or something like that and you will witness an explosion of macho posturing like you wouldn't believe. "I'll whup ass on anybody that calls me a sissy!" says the CD in frilly panties. LOL!

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Soarkle, I'm 100% Male with many Female tendencies .

[donnalee]

I'm 100% ME!. After 68 years, I'm still trying to figure out what that is.
Humans are not rational animals; they are rationalizing ones.

[Walkintallnheels]

O percent.

[visualkei]

My answer to the posters question would be 50%. I guess I'm different in the way I was conditioned as when I was a child nothing was identified as being male or female to me.
I never felt like I wasn't allowed to wear a dress or act feminine. Dad once said, "What are you a girl?!" in response to me failing an attempt learning to swim. I didn't even process the insult as being derogatory towards girls, the message just came across as disapproval. My family is full of strong-willed, over-achieving women and very masculine and argumentative men.

When I dress up, I look at it as if I'm borrowing a female aesthetic and emulating some of the choreographed motion. I appreciate the momentary failure to be identified as a male, but quickly want the realization to be made that I'm a guy dolled up as a woman normally looks. When dressed I do karaoke and sing male-vocal oriented songs as I have a decent baritone voice and kill on "Kissing A Fool", Duran Duran, and Sinatra. I drink whiskey out of an old-fashioned glass, talk like a man, swear a lot and rant about women. I also think female undergarments are gross. The lack of support in that region makes me feel too vulnerable and uncomfortable.

I just wanted to share my perspective on it, and offer you what might be a smaller shade of the spectrum and that people like me exist.
I hope my take on it helps.
P.S., I may represent a minority, but even I couldn't know with how much in CD culture goes unreported and unstudied.

[Kylee-Blackstad]

As when someone asks me "what percentage of you is straight/gay?" I look back and purposely say "neither." I belong to neither of the straight or gay worlds nor do I seem to feel these days I belong to the other two camps.


I suspect this is just some genetic anomaly.

Most of the recent research I'm reviewing through (online peer-reviewed journals and other published literature) have pointed considerably towards socialization. Genetics play a part but not as much of a major one. It goes inline already what my experience has taught me in molecular research.

I'm heavily socialized as a male so most of my proclivities play towards that. My mannerisms en femme have become a bit more unconsciously acted out when not lately, but those again are largely based on watching other girls act, or how I would perceive being the punky/rebel girl I am. Kylee isn't just a character I throw on for giggles (well sorta lmao), but another face of my personality. Me. So in a number of ways I'm rather fine being androgynous than fully passing, though both are great and fine by me. Politically speaking I'd rather be androgynous looking to screw with and challenge perception of gender.

Frankly it doesn't matter what's under your skirt, pants or shorts. IF you choose to present either one, or NEITHER, then it matters nothing to me if I happen to find an inconsistency to that of what society says a woman or man should have. The sheer fact society has this mindf**k with androgynes whenever they see them says it all about their worldview.

My attitude is the same for genetics as well. If you are XXY for example...what does that make you?

[suchacutie]

I need to pop in here again just to bring up the biological fact that there is a fundamental difference in brain activity in men and women statistically. Although some socialization is apparent in gender-specific activity, there are many studies that show the brain overcomes socialization in many cases, though certainly not all.

Our socialization over the centuries have promoted certain activities as belonging to one gender or another, unfortunately. It's sometimes easier to refer to this socialization when we discuss our gender specificity, and that is unfortunate since our gender relationship is almost always much more complicated and harder to describe. I'm sorry if we've inadvertently reduced our complicated lives to simplicities, but sometimes that's all we have.

[Pink Susan]

I have done some on -line tests too , bit of fun actually ...and I am more female than male in many areas , not just the way I prefer to dress , but how I think and act too.
Still I already knew that !:)

[Kylee-Blackstad]

I need to pop in here again just to bring up the biological fact that there is a fundamental difference in brain activity in men and women statistically. Although some socialization is apparent in gender-specific activity, there are many studies that show the brain overcomes socialization in many cases, though certainly not all.

Our socialization over the centuries have promoted certain activities as belonging to one gender or another, unfortunately. It's sometimes easier to refer to this socialization when we discuss our gender specificity, and that is unfortunate since our gender relationship is almost always much more complicated and harder to describe. I'm sorry if we've inadvertently reduced our complicated lives to simplicities, but sometimes that's all we have.


Gender builds on biological sex, but it exaggerates biological difference, and
it carries biological difference into domains in which it is completely irrelevant. There is no
biological reason, for example, why women should mince and men should swagger, or why
women should have red toenails and men should not. But while we think of sex as biological and
gender as social, this distinction is not clear-cut. People tend to think of gender as the result of
nurture – as social and hence fluid – while sex is the result of nature, simply given by biology.
However, nature and nurture intertwine, and there is no obvious point at which sex leaves off and
gender begins.


But the sharp demarcation fails because there is no single objective biological criterion
for male or female sex. Sex is based in a combination of anatomical, endocrinal and
chromosomal features, and the selection among these criteria for sex assignment is based very
much on cultural beliefs about what actually makes someone male or female. Thus the very
definition of the biological categories male and female, and people’s understanding of
themselves and others as male or female, is ultimately social. Anne Fausto-Sterling (2000) sums
up the situation as follows:

labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to
help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender – not science – can define our sex.
Furthermore, our beliefs about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about
sex in the first place.


Work on sex differences in the brain is very much in its early stages, and is far from
conclusive (Fausto-Sterling 2000). Men’s supposedly smaller corpus callosum, larger amygdala,
larger premammillary nucleus, are among the questionable structural differences that are
supposed to account for gender differences from men’s greater visual-spatial skills to their
tendency to stare at breasts

Much of the popular work on gender differences in the brain are
based on shaky evidence, and are commonly exaggerations and even distortions of what appears
in the scientific literature. And the scientific literature itself is based on very small samples, often
from sick or injured populations. In addition, not that much is known about the connections
between brain physiology and behavior or cognition – hence about the consequences of any
physiological differences scientists may be seeking or finding. And above all, the brain is very
plastic, changing in response to experience. Thus the causal relation between brain physiology
and activity is completely unclear (Eliot 2009). Nonetheless, any results that might support
physiological differences are readily snatched up and combined with any variety of gender
stereotypes in some often quite fantastic leaps of logic. And the products of these leaps can in
turn feed directly into social, and particularly into educational, policy, with arguments that
gender equity in such “left-brain areas” as mathematics and engineering is impossible

The eagerness of some scientists to establish a biological basis for all gender difference,
and the public’s eagerness to take these findings up, points to the fact that we put a good deal of
work into emphasizing, producing, and enforcing the dichotomous categories of male and
female. In the process, differences or similarities that blur the edges of these categories, or that
might even constitute other potential categories, are backgrounded, or erased, including the
enormous range of differences among females and among males



http://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/Chap1.pdf

Food for thought.

[Claire Cook]

Mine is a fuzzy number because it's all me.

[Laura Ottawa]

I feel 99% female and 1% male just hanging on