I don’t think “identify” has to be proactive and intentional. Cis people don’t feel their gender because the entirety of society is set up to passively affirm their gender. They still get upset at being misgendered and would feel dysphoric if they were to live as the opposite gender. When you say, “I don’t feel like I have a gender,” it’s because you’ve put effort into relating your experiences to others’ and found that you just don’t experience certain things that others seem to. When a cis person says, “I don’t feel like I have a gender,” it’s because their gender doesn’t cause them regular pain and they don’t think of whatever they enjoy about it as “part of” their gender. If a man wears a suit and feels good about himself, he doesn’t associate that with his gender, but that experience could very much be considered gender euphoria.
Cis people don’t feel their gender because the entirety of society is set up to passively affirm their gender.
in some ways yes, but in other ways it's constantly assaulting peoples' gender to sell them ridiculous things like tactical baby wipes or extract a pink tax.
If a man wears a suit and feels good about himself, he doesn’t associate that with his gender
sometimes they do. "x makes me feel like a man" isn't a completely alien concept to the cis
I don’t think “identify” has to be proactive and intentional. Cis people don’t feel their gender because the entirety of society is set up to passively affirm their gender. They still get upset at being misgendered and would feel dysphoric if they were to live as the opposite gender. When you say, “I don’t feel like I have a gender,” it’s because you’ve put effort into relating your experiences to others’ and found that you just don’t experience certain things that others seem to. When a cis person says, “I don’t feel like I have a gender,” it’s because their gender doesn’t cause them regular pain and they don’t think of whatever they enjoy about it as “part of” their gender. If a man wears a suit and feels good about himself, he doesn’t associate that with his gender, but that experience could very much be considered gender euphoria.
in some ways yes, but in other ways it's constantly assaulting peoples' gender to sell them ridiculous things like tactical baby wipes or extract a pink tax.
sometimes they do. "x makes me feel like a man" isn't a completely alien concept to the cis