First of all if you are asking yourself the question of: "Am I transgender?" the fact is that you are already questioning your gender identity. Many people at different times of their lives will question their own sexuality and gender identities and it is completely normal and healthy to do this. If you're asking the question then there is a reason for it and it is always a good choice to seek out an answer to a personal question. It's a very good idea to get in touch with yourself because knowing who you are and being authentic is a path to being happy and content.



Maybe you have just come to this realization, or perhaps the feelings have been with you for some time. Whatever the reason or for however how long you've had the feelings, the opposite sex has just appealed to you on a different level. Gender is a spectrum and not a clear cut binary of male or female. Sure most people are born one sex or the other, but at birth whether you are declared male or female based on your sexual features is a matter of biology and the assignment of a doctor.



The binary assignment of gender at birth in the past has posed a problem for many people who at birth exhibit at least some sign of being intersex. Being born between the sexes can seem like a horrible thing to some parents and a nightmare for the people who live lives in a clear cut society. The truth is that as many as 1 in 300 people born in the United States exhibit some characteristic of the opposite sex, yet the current method at nearly all hospitals is to assign a child as either male or female at birth based upon a doctors opinion. The assignment is something that is being questioned more throughout society as we look more into the development of a child. Biology is one component of a person's identity but there is also a psychological component. Many studies support the idea of gender as a sort of mental state. Scientists have performed scans of male and female brains and seen that men and women's minds are wired differently. So gender as we know it may be more psychological than biological.



