You know, when you really think about it, there's only two sexes. However, gender is quite something else.
Most peoples' gender is fairly close to their sex. That is to say that, most peoples' feelings, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors are just traits, generally centered around the sex that is usually characterized by them. This means that for an alpha male, he most probably would display great leadership skills, be confident in his demeanor, resistant to compromise, fairly stable in character, dominant, conservative in dress, contemplative, rugged, pugnacious, and of course, he would be expected to be heterosexual. The more that a male strays from these traits, the more he tends to display gender-variance.
For a female, the more effeminate and maternal that she is, the more she is identified with being an excellent representative of femaleness. This means that she is expected to be somewhat submissive, domestic, quite subject to flexibility in attitude, highly negotiable, suggestion-dependent, creative in expression, most willing to share her opinions, maternalistic, fashion conscious, soft in demeanor, and of course heterosexual. The more that the female strays from these traits, the more she tends to demonstrate gender-variance.
Definition of Sex (A) and (B):
(A) Simply being born a male, dictates that you must have male genitalia, a penis and two testicles (two if you're "normal"). This is your given sex.
(B) Simply being born a female, dictates the fact that you must have female genitalia, complete with an actual vagina, uterus, and fallopian tubes with matching ovaries. This is your given sex.
There's no question about (A) and (B)! Your sex is your sex! However, your gender can be all over the place!
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If the two sexes were opposite poles, some males' genders would be centered around the male pole, exclusively. However, many males would have mixed traits, with the overwheming majority of these traits being centered about the male pole, but a few traits being quite near the female pole. A few guys will have most traits centered about the female pole, altogether. These guys are either effeminate gays or MTF transsexuals!
If females have most of their traits centered about the male pole, then they are either dikes or FTM transsexuals.
Having your traits centered about one pole or the other does not make you crazy! Gender dysphoria is therefore, what happens when guys feel as though they are misrepresenting who they really are by playing roles opposite of their true gender natures. They're pimp-walking around in suits, ties, and Florsheims, when they would prefer to be switching in a pencil skirt, blouse, and some pumps. This of course, is very distressing for them, causing them to have a sense of ill-being, self-dissatisfaction, and thus, gender dysphoria.
The girls of BTG don't have gender dysphoria! There's no such thing as gender identification disorder (GID)! There's just gender!
