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A 'no' to this question is basically the definition for "agender" (the poll phrasing was lifted directly from a dictionary entry for agender). It looks like, according to this definition, about 30% of the population is agender, which falls under the trans umbrella and is not cis.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jul 13, 2022

Do you have an "internal sense" of being male or female?

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

and if ur gonna tell me 'there's a difference between cis by default and agender' i would love to know what that difference is

2:56 PM · Jul 14, 2022

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There is nothing within me that I can poll about my being a man. It is just a definitional thing, I am a man because of the nature of my composition.

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You should do this poll cut with assigned sex at birth....curious if there is a bias. Also, i think the "NO" is so high because "internal sense of being m/f" is itself a weird idea. For many people, the sense of self is not necessarily first and foremost gender-based.

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Perhaps cis by default people don't know they are "missing" something or don't care. But agender people know and care

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The essential meaning of 1963 version of the word "gender" is different depending on who you ask. As far as I'm concerned, I might as well mash the keyboard and ask if you have an internal sense of kwb5jkr, and if you say no, you're a-kwb5jkr.

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I don't have an internal sense of my own maleness - but 100% of the society I see has an external sense of my maleness and reflects it back to me. I feel happy and comfortable in my body, I'm attracted overwhelmingly to cis women. I'm not agender at all.

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Either 30% of people are "agender" or agender is poorly defined and doesn't measure anything real.

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Whenever I read "internal sense," it comes across as "different than the rest of the parts of your body." Mostly becuase of people saying the "soul" in their body is "trapped inside," of their body. Nothing in body feels extra, it feels empty if anything. 1/x

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for me, i'm cis by default because society thinks of me that way and i look that way, but internally i feel more agendered. kinda like how a religious person is religions because they were born into the family but doesn't actually believe in the religion but have to save face

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Aella, your questions generate the most interesting replies!

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Answered "no" because I don't identify with this body, or any features of it, by default. It takes conscious effort to do the identification, it's not an "internal sense" but work. I don't think that makes me trans in any way.