I don't believe in anything that cannot be weighed or measured, therefore I don't believe in spirits, ghosts, gods, auras, souls and genders.

I am physiologically a man and biologically attracted to other men. I despise labels, but reluctantly use them to simplify communication (although the constant blurring of what a 'gay man' means today increasingly removes this efficiency).

Although I realise that certain behaviours associated with different sexes and that this varies considerably from society to society and is generally described as "gender roles".

When I was a child and travelling through South East Asia, I would constantly see men in their 20s holding hands and skipping down the road, these men were expressing their friendship in a behaviour that matched their society's concept of how men should act. However thanks to Americanisation this changed as they adopted a Western conceptualisation of how men should act and they realised that their behaviour did not match Western 'gender roles'.

Some societies have considered some forms of male same-sex relationships to conform and match male 'gender roles' in their society, although modern western society dictates that all non heterosexual behaviour in males is contrary to their expected 'gender role'.

But as gender roles is completely socially constructed and varies considerably from society to society (although Americanisation through globalisation is certainly decreasing cultural diversity among societies globally), therefore meaning that gender in this conceptualisation cannot therefore be inherent.