My experience 7 years after beginning dressing

[DianeT]

I was able to do this without any sense of regret/guilt/shame, I have never felt bad about my dressing since I started. It was over this 4 years that I started noticing the feelings beyond the fetishistic pleasure, I found that I would stay dressed afterwards for surprisingly long periods because of strong positive feelings, calmness, contentment, relaxation and some other feelings I couldn't identify. As time past I found myself prioritising those positive feelings over the sexual pleasure, I could just spend the evening dressed and relaxing, so that's weird I thought, then I got very curious and started researching.

I followed quite a similar evolution.

[...] what even is a woman? Current research suggests that its not clothes, behaviour or biology but a brain state (not a brain type) that is mostly but not entirely correlated to the the female sex

I concur that being a female makes you a woman, in the biological sense. But that the female sex would mostly determine your brain state? What are the current research articles about this?