broken record

The subject of gender variance is so poorly understood that it's not worth my time continuing to deal with its intricacies. In the end people can believe what they want except that there is an important emphasis to be made regarding the difference between an internal sense of gender identity versus expression outside gender norms which I see conflated constantly. 

In other words, we can feel perfectly aligned with birth sex but enjoy expression outside traditional gender norms. Conversely, we can have an internal sense of identity that differs from expectation of biological sex. That incongruence with birth sex is called gender dysphoria and is known to be a graded phenomenon (thanks to Harry Benjamin) which at its apex is called transsexualism.

For some reason this distinction causes much confusion even among some gender variant people. But I will stop being a broken record and leave it at that.