How Can You *Feel* Like a Woman?

This question was asked once by someone sho did not understand gender identity: "How can You *Feel* Like a Woman?". I will try to answer that as best as I can.

Gender differences have been scientifically proven to originate in the brain. Yes, the specific behaviors associated with male and female are by and large taught and invented by society, but without physical and psycological gender differences in the first place, these sociological differences would never have arisen.

Women are wired in the brain differently than men and visa versa. They are two equal entities with different traits. Society is the influence which shows preference for one over the other. But that does not negate the fact that the genders are intrinsically different. Therefore, the feeling of being a woman is born in the brain (and some would say the spirit, or soul, but that is a philosophical discussion for another time) and is expressed using whatever norms are in place in the transgendered person's society.

Love, Sarah