Is it normal to not feel like you belong to any specific gender?

Posting this under sex because you don't have a lgbt or gender identity section. I'm a 17 year old male bodied person, And I always feel a little upset when people tell me things like "What a handsome young man you are" or refer to me as a he. I also have no desire to change my gender to be something like a woman. I just like being myself, and have always felt like the concept of gender is just some bullshit made up by people thousands of years ago. I don't dress up in all mens clothes, I just wear whatever Is comfortable or whatever I feel like. I feel like mens clothes should be more colorful, as most of them are brown black or occasionally white, which is extremely boring as far as color schemes go. I've looked into the term ze and hir, and I would feel completely ridiculous if I went around insisting people call me that. I'm attracted to people of any gender Identity, because as I said earlier, I don't really believe in the concept of gender. I'm willing to call anyone any pronoun they prefer, and when I'm not sure I ask. I'm mistaken for a girl all the time because of my hair and long non false eyelashes, as well as having mannerisms speech habits and opinions generally associated with women. I don't identify as transgendered, but if you could tell me what I am supposed to identify by, feel free to make a suggestion. Is all of this normal, or am I just wierd?

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  • JadedUnknown

    I'm female, and I identify myself as such, but sometimes in my groggy and confused state of mind, I have absolutely no idea of who I am. In dreams, I am half the time male and half the time female if I am 'playing another character'. I am not a very girly girl however, and I don't like it either when people make such a divide among females and males... I mean, we're all humans, right? So why is it such a necessity to label everyone? I also don't like labels because people expect you to be that stereotypical type of person... which is very annoying. Sorry in the change of topics...

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  • delling

    It could be normal or abnormal, depending on whether you look at statistics or the social movements for gender atypical people. There are a lot of people like you.

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  • Shadowkitten

    Sounds to me like you are 'genderqueer' which is basically this:

    "Genderqueer is most commonly used to describe a person who feels that his/her gender identity does not fit into the socially constructed "norms" associated with his/her biological sex.
    Genderqueer is an identity that falls anywhere between man/boy/male and woman/girl/female on the spectrum of gender identities."

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  • Avant-Garde

    I know what you mean. I have the tendency towards getting crossly offended when someone refers to me as a "female". For example: "You are an attractive girl". I am androgynous and I seem to alone myself more with the make gender, feature this, I am not a transexual, though at one point, I honestly thought that I was. I like the gender I am now, yet sometimes I find myself wanting to be referred with a male term, yet when this does happen, it tends to offend me. According to my therapist, I have a fluid sexuality. Perhaps, this is part of what you are experiencing as well. I wish society didn't make such a big fucking deal of gender.

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    • What were you born as?

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      • Avant-Garde

        Female.

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  • Scenik

    This is like being genderfluid or bigendered I guess.

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  • morethanI

    I'm a male. I'm in my 50s now, but when I was in my 20s I had an incredible desire to identify as a woman. I went out and bought a woman's outfit and put it on in the privacy of my home. After spending time that way I reverted back to my usual male clothes and that ended the desire I had. Then in my late 40s it happened again. By that time there was the internet and I started researching this desire, which I didn't understand. I registered in a couple of transgendered chat sites and learned a lot about transgenderism. I learned that there were a lot of other people going through the same thing to greater or lesser extents. I invested a lot more in female attire than when I was in my 20s. I currently have several female clothes. I grew my hair long. I still did not leave my home in female clothing, but, to my astonishment, some people were confused about my sexuality. People started calling me "Ma'am" instead of "sir", or referring to me as "her". One child got into a dispute with his father over whether I was a girl or a boy. Though I still have female clothing I currently no longer desire to identify as a female. A lot of research led me to conclude that I am an androgen. Androgen's do not require identifying as an opposite gender often, which is the case with me. My mind is androgynous too. my brain is equal in logic (associated with males) and verbal abilities (associated with females). I'm also bi sexual. Another interesting thing is that I'm ambidextrous too. I think it has something to do with equality of mind. I suspect I have two personalities, one male, and one female. If this is so my male personality is dominant, but my female personality occasionally needs to be recognized. It is my opinion that there are two distinct genders, but everyone falls somewhere in between the two, whether you're sexually a male, or sexually a female. Some sexually female people can fall more to the male side of the gender scale and some sexually male people can fall to the female side of the gender scale. I believe I'm very close to the center of the gender scale.

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  • Mersaphe

    All this means is that you identify primarily as a human being not as a specific gender which you are correct in assuming hinders an limits an individual's potential and aspirations.

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  • Normalhopefully

    Completely normal. Its kind of cool anyways.

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  • shoot2ill

    I feel the same way pretty much. I am a woman who only likes girls, but I dress in mostly men's clothes because it's comfortable for me(I don't have body issues) I don't mind people calling me a girl and I don't mind people calling me a boy. I get a half and half mix. I do not want to be a boy, but I wouldn't mind having both a penis and a vagina. I wouldn't get surgery though. I love being associated with girls because I'm girly inside. I love being able to say I am a woman. I don't like guy rituals or the way they act. I have more of a boys body and I love it, but I still love being a girl. I wish they had a gender neutral pronoun because I really hate when I'm out and someone calls me sir and my family or friends correct them. It's so embarrassing... they get all like "omg I'm so sorry!" I don't care!! It doesn't offend me. The other thing I hate though is going to the girls bathroom in public. Usually a younger crowd can identify me as a lesbian, but most older people don't observe as well. I get women that see me washing my hands and check if it's the girls bathroom. I had some old women tell me it's the girls bathroom. I usually try to hold it, sneak in and out, or go to a less used bathroom. So idk. I love being a manly woman.

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  • darkknight89

    I think its normal

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  • darkknight89

    I'm a Guy but not too long ago I was dressing up like a women (buying girl clothes) and buying make up and shit like that. But eventually I was forced to choose a gender and stay with it so I chose male. Eventhough I'd rather be a female but im staying a Guy Cuz I told my mom one time how I thought I was in the wrong body and she freaked out (when I was seven) and it started happening again in my early twenties and she practically disowned me and kicked me out.

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    • Wuggums47

      I'm so sorry that happened to you. Although I'm not sure how my mom feels about my gender identity, or lack thereof, She was very accepting when I explained that I was attracted to people of any gender. She told me that she thought I was gay since I was little and would complain about how mens clothes didn't have enough bright clothes, and that I thought womens clothing would look better on everyone.

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      • darkknight89

        Guess what my mom gave me,? a few smacks in the face when I tried to explain to her my gender identity issues. Yeah that was literally a smack in the face.. I just want to go back to the hospital and fuckin do it in spite of everything.

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        • Wuggums47

          Wow, If you ask me you aren't even fit for the title of mother if you can't even love your own children the way they are.

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          • darkknight89

            That's a good point, I just talked to her about it with her and she says I have to move out to a group home if I did anything about it.... in her defense she says there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the house as it is with my brother being skitzo and all and its heartbreaking to her.

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  • awkwardkartoffel

    I hate the whole gender binary thing. Honestly, there are so many more than just 2 genders. The spectrum is HUGE. And then, some people don't like identifying themselves as one gender in particular. It's perfectly normal.

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  • kelili

    I am a woman and feel very much like a woman so I don't really understand.

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  • Nonos

    I think you are normal. I am a female and I'm attracted to men, though I'm agree with you about questioning the concept of gender. Anything made by human and the society could be wrong and imperfect. its Just the matter of time, human still needs more experience and exploration and there is lots of room for improvement.

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  • Couman

    I agree with much of what you say, but I differ in that I don't take any exception to being referred to as male.

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  • sarcastic17one

    Being normal is a state of mind. No body knows what's normal.

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  • imadragon

    I think I feel the same way, but I don't know really know what else to say, I recently discovered this about myself. So I think it's normal, but most people probably don't understand.

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  • I think it's not normal. Everything in this world has a label, a specific trait. This universe was created based on the logic of things defining each other. Opposites, to be more precise. High and low, hot and cold, big and small, masculine and feminine. There is no thing without the other polar opposite to define them. Therefor i think that nature created roles and traits, traits that we call labels. Losing all these labels, by not relating to a certain category of traits makes us lose our identity , our nature. There is no such thing as "universal" in living beings. Only in objects. Every other way of existence falls into obscurity. It would lose purpose and meaning.

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    • Wuggums47

      But are women and men truly opposites? The way I see it, cisgendered women and men are two similar entities, Part of a larger group, the human.

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