I’m AMAB cishet, but I’ve been struggling with understanding my gender vs my sex. I’m very comfortable with my body, including by sexual characteristics, but have never felt a strong affinity to the male gender. Is there a term for this? Everything I look up includes some kind of body dysphoria, which is not something I relate to.
i have a couple agender friends who report similar thoughts
Many such cases!
You might be experiencing social dysphoria or profound discomfort with patriarchy. We live in a violent, anti-woman society where men are expected to dominate and violate women. Even if you are happy being in a “male” body, you might not be happy with the role and expectations of being a “man”.
Reinforcing my pet theory that way more people are agender/nonbinary than binary.
Yeah if binary gender wasn’t taught and enforced, I’m sure most people would feel this way.
there’s a lot of words for that! You can def start by googling agender, demiboy/demiman, and of course non-binary, and probably some others that pop up adjacent to those, and reading up on definitions and especially individual experiences and accounts. I don’t have any specific readings off the dome but I’m also happy to answer questions as an AMAB enby