I see gender as being a lot more ambiguous, fluid and nonbinary than most people seem to believe. I’m biologically male and was raised as a boy, but I am sometimes a woman in dreams. Those are among my favorite dreams.
Something I’ve been thinking about is the difference between “sex” and “gender” in dreams (as well as when physically awake). My sex could be male or female (or somewhere in between, but so far that has not happened in my dreams as far as I recall). My gender identity could be different than my “physical” form (more of a thought-form in dreams).
An interesting exercise is to transform your sex in a dream. I’ve thus far only been able to do this once (partially successful) as far as I recall.
It is also interesting to speculate about how choosing different sex/gender presentation in virtual reality might affect one’s gender identity in dreams or when physically awake.
“Girl or Boy” - Dani Shay
~ArthurG