There are a few factors that are included that determine gender identity: genetice factors, enviromental situtations, psychosocial factors and sexual hormones. Usually at this point; 23 chromosomes from the male donor and 23 from the female come together and combine to make a “zygote”. Starting about six weeks into the pregnancy, our bodies began to form and create into what they are meant to be, and after the seventh week, our genetic code (XY or XX) begins to really assert itself. Gender identity is not always a term referring to a person’s anatomic sex, “sex assignment” is now the correct term to ask a person their anatomic sex that occurred at birth.
Masculine and femine have an empirical meaning, being used as labels to identify speific objects, events or qualities. Feminine traits are ways of behaving. Clearly, society’s categories for what is masculine and feminine are unrealistic. They may not capture how we truly feel, how we behave, or how we define ourselves. All men have some so-called feminine traits, and all women have some so-called masculine traits. And we may show different traits at different times. Our cultures teach women and men to be the opposite of each other in many ways. The truth is that we are more alike than different. Some feminine traits would be wearing makeup, doing hair on a daily basis, and certain clothes we were. Masculine traits would be working out, certain jobs that they do, and the way they carry themselves.
One of the factors in my life that have helped determine my gender identity is; by nature I am a female because I have the sexual reproduction system of a female. That is not what makes me a female though. What makes me a female is how I carry myself in everyday life. I am secure in my womanhood, and have never felt like I should have been a male instead. I like to dress like a woman, talk like a woman, and even use manners that are considered “womanly”.I chose to keep long, pretty, manicured fingernails,...