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For opposite values of sex and gender, the same goes for me. To the extent that I do conform to certain masculine stereotypes I don't view them as critical to my identity, just another semi-arbitrary socially constructed category that I belong to.
In my case, I had (often vastly) reduced exposure to most of the transmission vectors I would expect social gender identity memes to have. Out of curiousity, if it's not too personal, was your childhood particularly atypical in exposure to type of social environments/mass media/&c.?
The thing I've heard said about it is "if you're cisgendered, you're as aware of your own gender as a fish is of water" (where cisgendered == not transgendered). I don't know how you'd measure whether that was so.