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A statistics thread. All the options are pretty self-explanitory.

I think 'genderqueer' would have been a better way to put it. I'm pretty sure the poll option in question was referring to those who identify as something outside the gender binary--as neither male nor female, basically.

And I put 'female-to-male,' which I understand being listed as a separate option for polling or statistical reasons (i.e. just to see how many of us there are here), but it really shouldn't be classified as a separate gender. The whole point is FTMs are men, just as MTFs are women, regardless of the body they had the misfortune of being assigned to at birth.

I'm female, plain and simple. I've never been a particularly feminine female, however.

Well, it's hard to explain really...I'm biologically female, but I see the world as having three genders, male, female, and me...like i'm not entirely female but yet not male. I can switch from acting and feeling feminine to acting and feeling masculine...at least that's how I see it.

I wouldn't go so far as to say FtM, but since I became aware of gender differences I've communicated a desire to be male (the way family tells the story, I didn't mince words--I wanted a boys name, boy's identity, I wanted a freakin' p***s, darnit!).

Since then, I've developed a little more tact and learned to recognize some advantages of growing into my body (rather than to frustrate myself wishing it were different); though, I've still often found myself confusing my own gender pronouns from time to time.
______+Plus, the more I learned about gender stereotypes, double standards, the whole deal, I've actually found some occasion to play them to my advantage (though, mostly just for humorous affect).

High School, when sexuality really came into play, I got really confused about gender identity. Without any--uhhm--hands-on experience I've teetered between understanding my predilections towards Yaoi/Male-on-male in a vicarious manner. It seemed redundant to consider myself a gay male born in the body of woman, because I might as well just be a straight woman, right?

Never you mind, I think, I'll just cover all my bases and consider myself both/neither/gender neutral...Or actually, the way I like to put it since I heard the term at an LGBT panel, I'm gender fluid.