"If I feel like a woman then boom I'm a woman bc it isn't real"

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[–]MilkTea[S] 48 insightful - 9 fun48 insightful - 8 fun49 insightful - 9 fun -  (5 children)

impossible to explain, I just know I am one in the same way gay ppl know theyre gay and straight ppl know they're straight

gay = same sex attracted

straight = opposite sex attracted

It's that easy.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Homosexuality in men is in principle physically measurable. Attach a device that measures small changes in diameter to a flaccid penis, then show a diverse sequence of erotic images to the owner of said penis - comparison of diameter in response to either biological sex will provide a reasonable quantitation of sexual orientation. I'm guessing something similar could be done for women, perhaps with moisture.

I know of no way to measure the magical feeling of gender that exists entirely within somebody's head.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Photoplethysmography. Same idea, it's based on genital vasocongestion: which in men causes erection and in women it causes blood plasma to seep through the vaginal wall--this is the main constituent of lubrication. Instead of a strain gauge or volumetric device, it's a tampon-sized widget consisting of a light source and a photodetector. These work in tandem to measure a relative quantity of blood in surrounding tissue, and hypothetically, arousal.

There are some issues comparing the results of phallometry in men and photoplethysmographic results in women, however: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01599-5 Should get you started if you want to know more.... but at this point... TMI? =)

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It took me a decade (if not longer) to realize I was gay. There's no magical "gay sense" like this person is describing. It can be hard to tell, even if it seems obvious to others.

[–]emptiedriver 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, it's active - you want to do something sexual with someone of the same sex. What is the activity of being female? Wanting to have your period? I don't like having mine, plus I had no idea what it would feel like before I had my first one, plus they don't always feel the same, really. Wanting to have boobs? This just seems like getting confused with "wanting to touch boobs".. It makes no sense to say it's an inner feeling. It's a physical fact. You're homosexual or bisexual when you want to do things and especially when you start doing them due to the physical fact of your bodies. You're male or female based on those bodies. None of it is internal knowledge in a void.

[–]Eurowoman24 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

not to mention the physical manifestation of that attraction..