if you identify as cis but havenāt actually taken time to sit down and examine and analyze your gender identity, itās probably time to do that otherwise youāve just given in to society forcing a significant part of your identity upon you.
if someones comfortable with their gender identity to the point that its not even on their mind then theres no need for them to analyse it
as someone who basically identifies as cis i think itās very much important to examine your gender identity. it might lead to small things: e.g. after i did that i stopped shaving because i realized that i wasnāt doing it for myself. further, iāve stopped seeing my own face as a gendered thing and this makes it easier for me to be respectful of the identities of others, and easier to be happy with the meatsack i live in. i think that itās very important for cis people to consider what aspects of gendered existence we hold sacred. peeing in a segregated space? if so, why? i mean this is exactly the kind of question trans communities have been trying to get us to deal with forever and i think that answering it on a cultural level will come with exactly the type of introspection that OP is asking for.Ā
some of the best advice iāve got in college so far is āmake strange what is comfortableā and hey, after you take it apart, you can put it right back together again if thatās what makes you happy but itās still important to evaluate why you perform your gender the way you do and what rituals are essential to that? why are they essential? are they worth perpetuating? the answer might not always be yes EVEN for people comfortable with the label of their gender assigned at birth
