Definitions

We can get hung up on the terms manhood and womanhood both of which are well steeped in social expectations. Even male and female contain greys when we consider intersex conditions and ambiguous genitalia in infants. 

In the end we should perhaps speak in terms of transparency and authenticity. Who are you as a person beyond the titles that society so desperately wants to impose upon you? 

Terminology seems to preoccupy the minds of many gender variant people despite the fact that validation is an internal process. Others don't tell us who we are. 

In the 1950's social roles were so rigid that the difference between the sexes was stark and unmistakable. Fast forward to today and the streets are filled with a sea of gender ambiguity and unisex trends which defy the old conventions.

Presumably each person today is expressing authenticity; not feeling that they are in costume and hiding who they truly are.