What's the difference between 'cis by default' and 'agender'?
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Whether or not you identify with your assigned gender. Cis by default still means you identify as cis.
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Sure you do. If I call you a woman, do you feel the label correctly describes you? If so, you identify as a woman. If I call you a Zoroastrian, do you feel the same way? If not, then you don't identify as Zoroastrian. It's pretty easy.
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The label is used to predict things, right? If you call me a woman, I think "I have a vagina, and long hair, and XX chromosomes, and those things are extremely highly correlated with the word 'woman,' so yes that label fits"
'Identity' seems like a word that doesn't mean that tho
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You're confusing gender and physical sex. We now separate physical characteristics from social expectations, behavioural factors, aptitudes, etc.
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So a trans-man or "man with XX chromosomes and a vagina" (to simplify) is someone assigned to the female gender at birth based on physical characteristics, but is more comfortable behaving and interacting in ways society generally sees as male.
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I understand that. But you asked me, does woman correctly describe me? And when I think about that, I think about my physical sex. I don't have any felt sense of 'womanness' or anything, and my sense of 'role in society and the way it treats me' doesn't feel inherent at all.
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Most people. best I can tell, do have a felt sense of woman-ness or man-ness and it's quite important to them. It sounds like you're probably cis-by-default.
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What does it feel like? Can you break down the felt sense of womanness?