I wasn’t given a gender at birth.
An expert in such matters, assessed my physical characteristics and documented them as a sex - on my birth certificate, and for their own records no doubt.
I believe I was given a gender when my chromosone mix was determined, which pre dates that point. I can’t say when, I’m not a scientist and I was too young to remember.
And the only thing I live in, is a house, a town, a country, but on a planet, in a solar system, in a spiral galaxy in a universe.
I suspect the lobby advocating for such questions might have other ideas about what I live “in” but to the best of my knowledge, the above is as true statement.
I do not understand how one can live in a “state of being male or female”…. It’s like asking a Russian who has never left Russia, if they identify as American. They haven’t been there, they only know what they’ve seen on tv or heard second hand accounts of, they might empathise with the plight of poverty there or be envious if the wealth that some have, but they cannot possibly ever know what it is to be American. Even if they move there and get Citizenship, they might have an improved idea of what it is to be American, but they won’t have grown up there, they will have missed out on many formative experiences that take a lifetime to and there’s every possibility they may return to Russia or head somewhere else. I would suspect that most Russians who have spent more than half their life in America, would continue to believe they remain Russian. I accept people are more complex than animals (maybe) but taking a Russian animal and releasing it in the American countryside, doesn’t make it American, just as animals have no issues about biological sex and just get on with living.
Ultimately, i would not apply to work for an organisation that insisting on asking me an impossible question to answer like that, and one clearly designed to figure out on which side of an ever changing ideology I am likely to be aparty to. I’ve learnt to keep my personal politics out of the workplace.