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What is Transgender? I was thinking about this last night. There are many different definitions. I am starting to think that in a way I am transgendered. Simply because I feel that I want to experiment, see how the "other half" lives. That may not fit many definitions, but you know what? I don't actually care. my definition is what matters. I think i will have to figure that out. What is my definition of gender. What is my definition of transgenderism? My roommate brought up a good point the other night: If you never looked at your body and no one ever told you that you were male or female, would you be able to know what your gender was? If you could tell, how would you know? what would you use to tell you if you were male or female? Could you even tell at all? At the time I said yes, of course you could tell, I am a woman, I feel this. But the more i think about it, I'm not so sure that I could tell. I'm not so sure that I could know my gender just though my mind and my thoughts. I can now see what Joelle was talking about, how gender is a continuum, and how we all fall in diffrent places on that contnuum. I'm not so sure where I see myself on the gender continuum anymore.