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Originally Posted by Itse
There's a fairly thought experiment that has helped many people grasp personal experience of gender better.
Imagine that your consciousness is copied to a machine. It's self-conscious bunch of ones and zeroes somewhere in digital space that is a perfect copy of your consciousness.
Would that digital copy of you be male?
I would day yes, yes it would be, somehow. It's somewhat irrational, but it feels true. Even without body, I would still be male. My understanding of my gender does go beyond my body, even thought I'm mostly not aware if it.
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I’d say it would be immaterial at least to me. I’d probably assume I was male only because I used to be male and people treated me as male but if this digital world my Avatar was female I don’t think it would cause me pain or feel like the body was not mine after a few months.
Most instances of people describing Gender appear to just be societal constructs.