[teakettle42]

> Do you correlate your sensations of happiness or impatience or satisfaction against normative models using objective indicia

Of course we do. It’s how we establish shared meaning about what it means to feel any of those things.

The rest of your post describes gender roles; as in, social standards and stereotypes of behaviors attached to sex.

We don’t use the words “woman” and “man” to denote roles or a social subculture, and we’ve never segregated bathrooms, or established segregated sports programs, on the basis of gender roles.

How I feel internally, even if you could correlate it to some objective definition of “feeling female” — which you cannot — does not change that I am a man; an adult human male.