How can you tell if you are a boy or a girl, or something else entirely?

That seems like a tricky question. Our society is obsessed with gender roles and not knowing which category you fall under can be immensely burdening. But try to think about it, does it even matter? It adds nothing to you as a person. You don't have to fit into a gender, just be yourself and try to accept and love the person you are. You can fall anywhere on the spectrum of gender and sexuality and while labeling helps clear confusion and sometimes give closure, that's all they do. You are better than enough as you are, with or without labels.

It's all based on feeling. If you are biologically a girl, but say, don't like your feminine features. And not just "not liking" but basically it makes you feel anxious or such. That feeling is dysphoria. You don't HAVE to have dysphoria, though. But, if you generally feel nonbinary, you just don't feel like either, or a little bit of both. Gender is a whole spectrum, really. Some terms to get familiar with: Genderfluid - a person whose gender identity changes from time to time, can be by day/ week, no pattern of change Non-binary - Not on the gender binary, basically doesn't have a gender Transgender - someone who is assigned the wrong sex at birth, for example, a girl born in a male body. She might not feel comfortable being adressed as a boy, therefore she dresses to make it appear as if she has feminine traits and/or transitions. It really depends honestly. Demigirl/boy - someone who doesn't entirely feel like a girl or a boy, think of it as half non-binary, half boy/girl. Bigender - Someone who identifies as a male and a female at the same time. Okay, I hope this helped! Gender is a very complicated thing, therefore it is quite hard to explain. However, please respect lgbtqa people. Aka, adress a transwoman by her correct pronouns, don't be rude and call her 'he'. That can really ruin her day. I identify as genderfluid, therefore I know the feeling of feeling like a girl, boy, neither, both or mixed up in all different kinds of combinations. By the way, it doesn't matter if your gender changes, you have all the right to change your identity as you want. Hope this helped!

Only you can determine your gender identity, but thought exercises can be very helpful in determining this. Imagine yourself as a boy, as a girl, or as something else. Imagine having the body, pronouns or names of someone of that gender. How does it feel? Explore.

You can tell by what you feel, what you think, what you believe and what feels most comfortable. If you're unsure of this, just be who makes you happy, you don't have to label anything.

That is something a person needs to do the thanking about to there own self. If others picked it and you found it wasn't you then you just lived that persons pick as a lie. Its best to be open to your self and to your feelings.

It's just something you feel. Personally, I believe I'm an alien but that's not what the world believes but who cares what anyone else thinks? What should matter most to you with matters like this is how you feel and what you think. Because this is you, right?

If you don't feel comfortable being the gender that you were biologically born with or you sometimes do and sometimes don't, you most likely are either genderfluid or maybe you want to explore being a transgender.

Always look at how you are feeling before anything, how you feel about certain pronouns. Labels can be a good way to feel comfortable, but they should always come later and never before what you feel in you heart. Don't rush yourself, and take time you discover your gender, whatever it may be.

It's a difficult thing to figure out, since it all comes down to how you feel about yourself and your identity. If you're feeling a disconnect or uncertainty about the gender you currently identify as, it can help to explore what others have said about their experiences with gender to see what resonates with you. Dysphoria, or lack thereof, also plays a big role in many peoples' experience with gender. Physical dysphoria is a feeling of discomfort or anxiety about parts of your body due to gender associations, commonly genitalia and secondary sex characteristics like your voice or chest. Social dysphoria is a discomfort with assumptions others make about your gender or the way your percieved gender affects social environments, like when people refer to you with gendered words and pronouns. Not all trans people experience this, but for many it can be a starting point that leads them to question their gender. The real difficulty in figuring out gender is that there's no set definition of what it is to be a boy or a girl or something else. You can be masculine, feminine, or androgynous in your personality, hobbies, dress, name, and appearance, but none of that determines your gender. It's an almost undefinable internal sense of who you are. In my case, I know I'm not a boy or a girl because I feel really strongly that neither of those fits, and because I feel a lot of anxiety, panic, and disassociation when I'm referred to with gendered words and when I'm forced to be aware of certain physical characteristics. Overall, I would say that the best way is to examine your feelings and look into what others have written or said about their experiences. It's a very individual and personal experience, and although it can be difficult it can also be very exciting to figure things out and get a better sense of who you are.

To be honest, it's an entirely individual thing. I questioned my identity for a long time before I finally figured it out. What makes you feel most like YOU? What makes you feel good about yourself? How do you want the world to see you?