My perspective is that the biological gender and the mental gender need to be addressed separately. With some notable exceptions, most of us have a clear single biological gender, but even if we have the attributes of both biological genders those attributes are physically present and clear.
Mental gender is another matter, and it is there that we run the spectrum, not only in who we feel we are as to presentation, but who we feel we are as being attracted to some part of the gender presentation of others. It is here that we can be fluid if we choose, or isolationists if we choose.
However, even though my plural gender identity is most comfortable when the gender characteristics are as separated as possible (which could be described as two different applications running off the same database!), the very fact that I present in two separate genders with one body requires some compromises about presenstation. One can't only have pierced ears in one gender presentation. It's not easy to have arched eyebrows only some of the time. Likewise taking care of one's skin to maximize one's feminine presentation can't be undone (nor should it be) in one's masculine presentation. The list could continue for very long!
Thus, the state of one's mental gender and one's gender presentation could be one extreme or the other, but those extremes seem to be coming more unusual. Wouldn't it be odd if, after all, the extremes of mental gender simply disappear. Just imagine if everyone realized they were to some degree transgendered! The social ramifications of that are astounding!
tina
