DeeAnn You have a strong sense of who you are and I think that is admirable. Many people spend their entire lives trying to figure it out and never do. As tgirlamc mentions people are always wanting to pigeon hole everyone and everything. You certainly don't fit in a pigeon hole regarding your gender identity or sexuality. I for one think that is great. You know who you are and you are comfortable in your own skin.
I posted this thread to see what we thought as a community knowing that it would incite some strong responses from both perspectives. My intention was not to be a provocateur I really wanted to get some insight as to thoughts throughout the community and they are obviously quite varied. I posted this leaning toward my therapist's opinion of a gender spectrum but I did not have a strong conviction. As I read initial replies I was swayed toward the more binary construct. ( I tend to see a lot of gray in the world instead of black and white - probably too much) I look at both sides of an issue possibly to a fault.
After reading the many replies I am back to my original leaning that my opinion is that there is a gender spectrum to some degree. I am about to state the obvious but to make a point. On a spectrum there are of course the extreme ends of that spectrum. In this case it would be those that identify intensely with either gender and that is their truth. However for those that are somewhere else on that spectrum why can that not be their truth? Who are we to know what is in their mind, heart and soul?
