Thank you for your comments! I am recognized as a "male" in this body. I realized as a child that there was more to me than this gender. I did not begin to understand this innate insight for more than 20 years. As my life proceeded I slowly began to investigate many spiritual traditions including the classical religions. After learning from the eastern traditions of Hinduism, and Taoism I began to follow a Buddhist path of meditation. Only after many years of practice, insight, and experience did I start to realize that my original feelings of non-gender were encompassed within the buddhadharma! Although most Buddhist schools do not seem to embrace this type of discussion at the primary levels of teachings, they definitely are entrenched within the deeper levels of Buddhist philosophy as well as many specific practices. I hope and pray that as human understanding of the deeper levels of spiritual truth becomes more commonplace, this basic and simple fact of equanimity will eliminate the prejudice and ignorance we live with. It has only been through the heart of the Buddha that this most deep level of my conflicted self-awareness has overcome confusion and a level of personal suffering. My love and compassion goes out to you!