What if you were just a "Mind"?

Just imagine that all that existed were minds, not brains, but just conscious minds thinking. That no bodies existed, no gender manifestation. That no one had a deep voice or a soft voice due to the make up of a physical voice box.

If all that existed was a thinking mind could you define from your thoughts what gender or sex you were? I’ve tried to think on this question and have come to the conclusion that without any physical bodies existing I can’t by just reflecting on my thoughts define if I am a male or female as I have no evidence to work with. For many we know what gender we are because of the body we have. Our physical traits define our gender and our sex is defined by our relationship to the other sex because we fit with the other.

If we were just our mind could we realize that we were attracted to one particular gender or sex? I honestly don’t think we could. So my question is “On what bases do people say that they think they were born in the wrong body and that they are in fact the opposite sex than the one they are. Is this questioning of one’s gender rational or is it a mental in balance or false concept?

If one cannot define what gender they are if they were only a mind, and if ones body does not determine what relationship you should have, what do we mean by the word “gender”, “male” or “female” then? If male and female have no rational connection and we can have any combination man to man, female to female. Does this not eradicate the concepts of Homosexual and Lesbianism if the mind or the body cannot define gender.

If one wants to hold on to the preferences like homosexual and lesbianism what is the reason why they like one particular gender when gender can not be defined. Is gender just an illusions that one can desire anything or does our designed physical body connect with our mind and give us some guidance to our attractions. Gender has always been defined by God’s creation order of connecting two people in a right relationship. But if this interpretation is wrong then the concept of gender must be eradicated from our thinking. This of course will confuse society even more in it’s every changing relativism.