Hi alan and kardec I have always thought that possibly the spirit of a male can sometimes enter a female baby at the time of birth and visa versa female enters male child,but its a mystery as there are lesbians and gays,so i dont think we will find the answer to this until we get to the spiritworld.

Its like transvestites,whats the reason behind all these different things ?
Life is one big mystery.

Love and God bless   love juditha

Juditha,

your comment "Its like transvestites,whats the reason behind all these different things ?"

: a person and especially a male who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex especially for purposes of emotional or sexual gratification : having personal characteristics (as transsexuality or transvestism) that transcend traditional gender boundaries and corresponding sexual norms

Aras

 Well said Beau, i completely agree.

 Re: the general issue, it seems more often than not, other lives, karma, and subconscious memories tend to pertain a lot to this issue.  
I think that originally all Souls were more androgynous/hermaphroditic in nature, but this was when they were still fully intune with Source.  

  When freewill got the better of some Souls, and some Souls started to choose in a less creative manner, this threw off the balance of inner Feminine to Masculine ratio eventually.  

 The best and least loaded terms to describe these two Yin-Yang polarities is "passive/receptive and active/outputting", or could be related to what Bruce terms the "observer/perceiver" and the "interpreter".   This imbalance manifested itself in the physical in relation to humans.  
Some sources speak of cycles when some humans, who were more like advanced E.T.'s that we hear of now, were more androgynous in nature, even physically though their "physical" was on a faster and less dense vibration than our current, and more akin to our etheric level of energies.  

 Anyways, some souls, many souls, have tended in their journey to choose one physical sex/gender more than another in their lives.  Sometimes this leads to a more extreme imbalance in that inner ratio.  

 Then as they spiritually develop, and can handle more difficult situations, they may choose to be born in the different gendered body, and thus some experience things like being primarily gay, or feeling transgendered in nature.  

 There is more to it than this, and this is bit of an over simplification, but it does seem to be an averagely true reason.  

 One could have experienced mostly male bodies, and still be rather balanced and in touch with the Yin side, and vice versa.  This is because Souls ultimately do not have gender like our physical bodies do.  

Great discussion. I think some or maybe all of us are born here with both sides to us, but our conditioning when young makes us identify with one side over the other and almost always the side we are conditioned to is the one we appear to be on the outside.

Bruce mentions the woman from Sensuous and that she may actually be the feminine side of himself, but what if you were born with both those parts in tact in your body? Then you would have the choice of which you most wanted to express. Your expression may not match up with your body type and there could be lessons for you and certainly for others around you to learn from in such a situation.

Some men are happy to have a man's body, but choose to dress as a woman. And some transgendered have no intention of becoming a woman surgically, they just want to as close to one as they can...and there are even Men and women who want to be the opposite sex but still make love to ...  well, the opposite sex ie some men want to be women but also make love to women and vice versa. It's a very interesting subject. I'm glad we're talking about it.

Hey Alan,

What I meant was that some people are bi in spirit but even so would have a preference I imagine in the physical for one sex or the other. If you are all male then it seems like you could never really debate yourself very efficiently. So much of how we view ourselves is programmed from birth. Most seem to take to easily and others do not. My father always saw himself as quite the man, but near the end of his life he found more of his feminine side. It would be nice to get a Transgender opinion on the post, absolutely. I only know what makes sense to me.

I agree that we all the same, carol ann. My question is: Can a bald man truly be androgynous? 

I think it is a sign of perfection too. Thanks to all for making this a great thread.

I think to completely understand one another we have to experience both sexes and that spirit is androgynous, but at what point the two sexes merge I would not say. If you maintain your single sex always then perhaps it is that way, I just don't see that you gain as much insight that way. Our feminine "side" comes from somewhere. Logic says to me that it comes from experience. But perhaps not. I am certain that I was not always a man. Even though I am quite comfortable as one today.