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An impressive volume of contributions and the proliferation of often opposing theories regarding the controversial problem of gender identity, encourages me to think that it may be useful to describe what to me seem the most significant aspects. Using this as a basis we can then investigate the various diverging paths of thought, or on the contrary, we can discover the surprising convergencies of ideas that are often hidden behind linguistic idiosyncrasies or apparently different conceptual frames of reference. The idea of proposing these notes on the theme sprung from a long-dated personal interest and was encouraged by the renewed interest in the subject that has been noted both in psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic fields. Proof of this is the range of publications of various books, now available in Italian, that all, more or less directly, concern male and female problems and their many theoretical and clinical intersections within the broader themes of identity construction and bisexuality. Among these contributions I should like to mention, in the order in which they have appeared, Destins de la fémininité by