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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8975418" data-attributes="member: 58172">In this thread, I note three separate variables:• community (whether one belongs to the mens group, the womens group, or an other group)• gender (whether one is masculine, feminine, both, or neither)• genitalia (whether ones bodily anatomy is that of a male, female, or intersex)I came across this presentation from the US government, the Veterans Affairs military department, relating to the VA hospitals. It likewise identifies three separate variables:• head (the psychological identity, whether one self-identifies as a man, woman, or transgender)• expression (the sociological gender, whether one self-expresses as culturally masculine, feminine, or both [or neither])• genitalia (the biological physiology, whether ones body is male, female, or intersex)A main difference is, where this thread describes a "community" variable (where one belongs to the group of men, women, or others), the VA presentation describes this same variable as "psychological" "identity" (namely, where one perceives oneself to be a man, woman, or other).The VA presentation helps me get a clearer understanding of what transgenderism is.I am surprised that being transgender is unrelated to being masculine, feminine, both, or neither. But this feels accurate to me.Consider the contrast between the head and the genitalia. If ones genitalia is male but ones head is not always a man, then one is transgender.It is possible for an anatomical male to comfortably self-express oneself in culturally masculine way − thus be outwardly in body and behavior a man − but internally know oneself to be a woman. I assume this permutation of the three variables often goes undetected by others, but I suspect it exists.In any case, these three separate variables − head, expression, and genitalia − permute independently from each other. So that any combination can happen to construct the deep and complex gender of an individual person.[ATTACH=full]279983[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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