DIRTY PANTIES ...and other thrilling tales of my sex ... - Lannie Rose

Section 2 - About Gender - 69In the most limited and fundamental sense, then, gender issimply that inner sense of your true self, as a woman or a man orwhatever you feel your gender to be. In the larger sense, this ismy definition of what it means to be a woman. The definition iscircular, but I like it all the same: Being a woman is the sum totalexperience of living as a woman.That’s all there is to it, I believe. I wasn’t born with a vaginaor a uterus, and I wasn’t raised as a girl. I will never have manyof the life experiences that are shared by most (but not all)women. But every day I spend living as a woman, my experiencegrows and I feel closer to my sisters. That’s what a woman is, ifyou ask me.