[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Surely you can equally say...you can't be born male and say 'well actually I feel female' because you aren't? I would argue that femininity and masculinity are what is learnt after birth. And in such, 'gender' is actually masculinity or femininity rather than sex

Also a big part of "feeling like a woman" imo is learned by how others treat you as a woman much more so than whether you play with dolls or are emotional or whatever (which I dont think are indicators of how much of a woman someone is)