Had you answered my original query with the first paragraph of your last comment, this discussion would have played out differently. I appreciate the wavelength:color::plumbing [uterus/gonads]:gender reference, what you are saying is that one’s cones/rods [neurophysiological states’] responses to exposure to electromagnetic wavelengths fail to explain the quales red, green, etc. So why ask about wavelengths when your focus is qualia?

Problem is that I am not concerned with the relationship between gonads and feeling male, or uteri and feeling female. Rather, I am asking for an elucidation of the content of the concepts male/female, notions which are loaded with normative elements absent in primitive concepts like red or green (or even, for instance, feeling thirst/hungry – which “means” I want water/food).

The referenced “feeling” or “relating to the world as” a gender [male/female] denotes that one’s behavioral predispositions are consonant with the behavioral dispositions deemed appropriate by ones society and culture to femaleness/maleness (concepts mediated by socially constructed gender roles).

So when dissonance is experienced by an increasing number of individuals, should our [educational?] focus not be modifying the cultural norms (gender, gender roles, etc): That is, stressing that predispositions to, say, to crying, sentimentality, playing with dolls, etc. does not necessarily mean that you are [feel/relate to the world as] female.

Rather than normalizing “sex confirmation” hormonal and surgical interventions; allowing transsexual “women” to compete in [biological] women’s sports, cohabit with [biological] women in prisons, and invade countless other domains which have traditionally been sanctuaries for [biological] women?

@Ted Wrigley I do not know whether the algorithm laets you know I responded if I fail to preface the response with an @TW. Just wanted to let you know that I did respond. Do have a look at the links I sent you along with my previous "hand waving," though, methinks you will find them interesting.