We could take the Jungian route with the Anima/Animus concept and say, assuming the ‘soul’ exists as such, that it has both the feminine and masculine aspects, one of which is dominant (whichever is reflective of your physical gender). But more to the point, unless a soul itself has reproductive capabilities (sexual or asexual), it has no gender (assuming of course Freud hasn’t castrated it). SO: Does the soul itself reproduce sexually?
yes it doesn’t make sense that it would have gender at least not in any permanent since… but i like to think the soul gathers experience and perhaps part of that experience can lead it to a disposition to be of a nature that is more attuned to being what we call feminine or masculine.
How can gender be physical though wouldn’t what you mean there be the sex? there are transgendered people who have one physical origin and yet do not persist in the original gender…
Perhaps if we see the physical as an extension of the soul then by extension the soul reproduces sexually otherwise i can’t see how…
…? Gender and sex are interchangeable in the sense you seem to be using. Perhaps you’re referring to sexual orientation?
i did not mean them to be interchangeable…I am seeing gender as being masculine or feminine, and sex as being male or female… i guess… or gender as male/female inside sex the same but physically…
Well you can use those terms like that if you prefer, but:
The first definition for gender refers to grammatical sets, or the gender of words.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gender
Perhaps i am using it as 2
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Transmigration is about coming back by a ‘like attracts like’ facet of reality imho. I think there is a hierarchy to it [as with hinduism], the soul would migrate to increasingly advanced incarnations, ~ anything else would be futile.
On the other hand, I am unsure if there is any point to humans reincarnating as humans again, its surely an advancement to advance to something else. Its quite plausible to me that there is a 0/0 relationship between migrations, which is worth considering. I mean no memories would migrate, so what exactly does?
Mine does.
how do you know?
It’s a bit like how I know I exist only more specific.
how do you know when you have an orgasm? Is it only the way a CSI team would know?
i see but then is your souls gender permanent?
Pretty much. I mean, some experiments have taken place, but they didn’t feel right.
i think I prefer the word sex to gender. The latter seems more behavioral rather than essential. Could be my own idiosyncratic take.
when i say gender i say sexual identity not exactly sex… how do you know in the next life you won’t be a woman… and feel the same yet technically opposite as you do now?
I won’t be a woman again. That’s a poor fit for my soul. I believe I have ‘tried’ this. It’s like I will never be a golfer. Though my conception of soul is not quite the ‘as opposed to body’ in many dualisms.
I suppose I could ask you something like:
how do you know you were not a Chinese girl living in Beijing yesterday and in the night your soul, like all other souls, flitted around to a new body with new memories, for a new day.
Know is a word to get really messed up around. But I believe that my soul is male.
hmmmm interesting
You don’t know. 
I think that as ‘karma’ suggests, let’s say that in this life (if there is such a thing as reincarnation) one has a problem with people who are gay. Well, in the next life that person may be gay (and perhaps also conflicted with their sexuality) and others may judge and ridicule them for their sexual orientation.
If there IS reincarnation, why would a deity have ordained it except so that we might grow in awareness and in our becoming. So, it’s probably a good thing to “live and to let live” in this life so that we might (possibly) flow easily within the next one. I’m just saying. A robin 
simply sits in his tree and chirps away. Does he care what other birds are in the tree with him - does he care what other birds are hopping along the grass near him? 
Why would a soul need to have a gender in the first place? Is there even a difference between a human soul and that of a ant when stripped of their bodies? It could be that a soul without a body can’t even be conscious because it needs a brain and body for that. If that is the case then a soul is like a blank page holding nothing but the spark to live and the body and brain would decide how the soul manifests.
Tetralix…
If there is such a thing as a {S]oul, I do not think that it is has a gender. It is ‘distinct’ from the body but in order to experience another life form, it would need a vehicle, an organism, which would have to have a gender. It’s the corporeal form which supplies the gender, not the soul (if we indeed have one).
I might compare the relationship to that of the brain’s with the mind. The brain is physical, it’s matter - the mind is immaterial, ethereal but it does proceed from the brain in a sense.
I can feel a bit guilty looking at it in this way because I so love all animals, especially the wolf, but I think that at least one school of thought is that humans have ‘individual’ souls and all lower forms of life have a universal soul, so to speak, a connectiveness to a principle soul. (Don’t tell my cat, Yoda, I said that 
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That would probably be the crux of it. Does the soul have consciousness or does consciousness simply proceed from the mind? If there is such an entity and it is eternal, than it would not need an organism…unless there is such a thing as reincarnation and the soul has yet to burn more brightly than it has. Perhaps this is part of the soul’s journey - to become the greatest and most beautiful burning torch that it has the capacity to be…of course ‘capacity’ might not be a good words to ascribe to something ‘eternal’.
Hmmm…That’s certainly food for thought. The latter part of what you wrote reminds me of ‘Dorian Gray’. Wonderful book. His soul was certainly manifested as a result of his brain, his thoughts, behavior, etc.
But the soul being a blank page…a tabula rasa of sorts…I’m stumped. I’m sitting here thinking of that. I like your phrase “spark to live” - maybe the soul is like a no-where and everywhere kind of spark which always burns (not meaning the human spirit). If it is eternal, than one might call it an eternal spark. Perhaps in a sense it has a ‘field’ of awareness which may influence brain and mind - and be influenced by the same, like the space (but not the soul) within us which allows us to spiritually touch upon/experience the interconnectedness of everything which surrounds us. …that contemplative moment, so to speak. When we’ve touched upon THAT, that Moment, perhaps that is when we interface with the soul.