You don’t actually know that. You can identify as male, female, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid etc. all while conforming or not conforming to male or female gender stereotypes. One is intrinsic, the other extrinsic.
That’s a good question to which no clear general answer can be given. What’s considered male is a huge spectrum of things, both material and immaterial, varying across generations and cultures.
But most importantly, what it means to be male is very different from what it means to be seen as male.
You don’t actually know that. You can identify as male, female, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid etc. all while conforming or not conforming to male or female gender stereotypes. One is intrinsic, the other extrinsic.
But what does it mean to be male if you reject all social definitions of maleness?
That’s a good question to which no clear general answer can be given. What’s considered male is a huge spectrum of things, both material and immaterial, varying across generations and cultures.
But most importantly, what it means to be male is very different from what it means to be seen as male.
The fact that you have to define yourself as conforming or non-conforming is what’s being griped here.
No you don’t. It’s extrinsic, I literally just said that.