Gender identity can be a strong feeling for some people. A feeling inside them that makes them feel male or female or whatever. For some people, they don't feel this identification and it doesn't bother them, because they don't realise they don't feel it and don't feel like the opposite sex so they identify as their birth sex automatically. For others, something just doesn't sit right.

I don't use the term genderqueer but I would qualify to. I do like some things stereotypically associated with my birthsex and to look at me you'd think I identified as it, but I don't feel that association with my body as that sex or with the idea of being called or recognised as it. I always felt different to other people but didn't understand why. I assumed that since I didn't feel like the opposite sex, I was my birth gender just a different kind. I didn't know about alternative genders until only a few years ago and had a big identity crisis over it and it was then that I realised my identification wasn't that simple.

My body is just a shell that I inhabit. I'm like a ghost or spirit possessing it. My identification is neither male nor female. I am just me.