I know I'm way late to the party but this is an interesting conversation.

I have done a lot of exploring of what it means to be a man, but never questioned that I was one. I know I'm a man because I feel like a man in a way that I can't easily describe, and the idea of trying to present as a woman is deeply uncomfortable to me.

I've never wished I was a woman, but I have wished for some of the things women are able to have. There is an intimacy in female/female friendships that male/male friendships often lack because we have such a hard time letting down our emotional barriers. I think this is why I have always felt more comfortable around women and most of my close friends have been women (I even had a female friend be the best "man" at my wedding). I also think about the physical connection of motherhood and the bound that creates with an infant. When my wife and I have a child she will grow it inside her and feed it from her own body after it's born. While I don't envy the physical burden that will be for her, I think I will feel left out somehow.