To ask if you have personally ever doubted the sex you were born into

[Chantelli]

Just that
Yabu - of course my gender and sex have always been aligned
Yanbu - I've often felt as though I do not identify with my biological sex assigned at birth

No I haven’t

To do so just be very confusing and terribly lovely so that there is more open discussions about this and acceptance is good thing (and separate from the self I’d debate)

I would say that I have never doubted my biological sex but have often chafed against the expectations of how my gender should behave. That didn’t make me question if I was really identified as the correct sex, rather that I hated the fact that gender roles were a thing, rather than letting people just be themselves.

I’ve struggled against my gender - by which I mean the expectations and limitations that society puts on me because of my sex - my whole life. I hate it and reject it. But I view this as a problem with society trying to enforce norms on people on the basis of sex rather than an indication that my body is wrong.

Not often but I did have a very, very brief wondering at about age 16 . IE about two weeks of wondering if I didn’t fit in because I was actually meant to be a man

Turns out I’m a lesbian instead .

I’m enormously relieved I never thought about it again! My cousin however transitioned in the 80s (maybe 70s) female to male . I’ve often wondered if he was facing a similar issue and maybe felt it would be easier to be a man than to be gay . Not sure .

As far as i Know my sex was observed not assigned. I have never felt like blue for a boy. i grew up in a working class Irish family in the 70:80s. this did not seem to bother anybody about me. I am a woman, my body is female, i do not identify with gender stereotypes. This does not change the fact that I am a woman..

Sex is a fact and it is observed at birth. It isn't "assigned" (with a few possible intersex exceptions).

I feel like a woman in the sense I inhabit a woman's body and all that goes with it - so I have experienced sexual assault, sexual harassment at work & elsewhere, caT calling and street harassment, PIV sex, abortion, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, contraception & it's knock on effects, PMT, menstruation, and now deep joy, peri-menopause.

I have never doubted my sex. As for my. Gender being aligned with it - absolutely no. My ‘gender’ suggests I wear dresses and make up and heels. I never have. Gender is a load of performative, culturally specific bollocks Which I don’t feel aligns for either me or my sex, so I can’t vote.

I have no time for the limits, restrictions and expectations imposed on me because of my sex.

Sex is a biological reality which cannot be changed.

Gender is a social construct which varies across time, place, social and economic status etc.

I spent many years thinking something had went wrong and I was a boy. Called myself David. Basically, started hitting gender based restrictions and then getting a hideous female shape all about th same time.

Still dream as a male sometimes, but basically once I understood that the only real difference between men and women is the baby biology stuff, and that everything else is stupid, then it became easier,

I am my sex but am not my gender.

No, I don't feel female I just feel like me. I am female because I have a female body.

I did from about the age of 8-10, as I grew older I realised that what was confusing me was societies gender stereotypes and nothing to do with my sex.

It was a lot more complicated in my head at the time and I was lucky enough to work through it without any major stress or fallout. I appreciate it doesn't work out like this for everyone.

Luckily no. I am very much a woman and ‘girly’. I also use the advantages that come with being a woman.

It must be very hard to not identify with the sex you have been worth with.

I sometimes wistfully think how nice it would be to be a man in the same way I wistfully think how nice it would be to be a 5’10 Italian woman.

However I was born with this body so I just concentrate on getting on with it and making the most of what I was given.

I wanted to be a boy when I was about 6 but that was because I didnt like the way being a girl felt, I didnt like most of the stuff girls were supposed to like, like dresses, make up acting girly, l just liked acting like me and not girly and I thought being a boy would be easier and less vulnerable if that makes sence. I still dont realy relate to the girly life style, I just like what I like but I dont think I should be male now in my adult state, I'm a just an individual who likes some supposed girly things and some supposed boy things and all other things in between.

@RunningFromInsanity out of interest what advantages do you think there are of being a woman?

I have a female body but so experience the world through that, but my internal landscape does not identify as male it female intrinsically. I am just me.

No, never.

I'm a woman with a vagina and I'm very happy with that

I'm not going to vote because your options make no sense
I am a female human and have never felt distress over that fact, or suffered from a delusion that I am actually male or should have been male.

No but I’m most happy with males despite being born female. Don’t think my sex has stopped me doing what I want to do, but if I had been born male it would have been easier, particularly in a work environment.

Sex is not assigned. It isn't a choice.

Gender is a set of social sex role stereotypes that are made to oppress females

Why would they need to match? Most people don't conform 100% one way or another.

Your sex NEVER changes. Personality is unique to every individual. The best thing we could all do is get rid of the bullshit stereotypes of 'gender'

Can't vote be cause your question assumes we all pray at the alter of gender ideology.
I don't 'identify' as female. I am one.

When I was about 17 I did think about this and I was worried I did feel male. I am now so happy to be female and I worry about what would happen if I was a teenager now.

In reality I was just coming to terms with who I was and my sexuality (bisexual). Teenage years are fraught with difficult feelings about identity.

Like others I never questioned my sex but often disagreed with gender expectations/stereotypes, especially as a DC.

No. I was lucky enough to be brought up with family and school telling me I could achieve anything and do anything that I wanted to. While the skills part was not strictly accurate (especially surfing), it meant that I didn't have a specific gender identity to conform to that was limiting. I have read articles where it appears some people identifying as non-binary or as another gender believe that gender places some sort of limit on what they can do or how they feel. Which is really sad and feels to me like going decades back in time, it's also nothing like the experience described by some older trans people I've known well and I find that a bit confusing.