There has been much consideration in recent years of the nature of gender as socially constructed. During the same time there has also been much consideration of the nature of consciousness and of self-experience, and a calling into question of the experience of a unitary self versus multiple self-states. This paper offers case material of a patient who presents with traumatically induced multiple self-states. The author considers the way in which the gender of different self-states reflects both cultural and personal experience; the way in which the patient's and the therapist's respective and mutual experience of their genders are intersubjectively experienced; and the impact of an inadvertent touch in the course of treatment, in the light of both multiplicity and gender.