Hello Dawn,

You carry into the afterlife the conception of yourself that you had at the moment of death. The conception is all that has substance and determines who you are. The physical body is gone and has no influence on who you are.

If you conceive of yourself as a woman, you will be that conception. Your personality will be the same as you had at the moment of death, and your etheric or afterlife body will have all the solidity and substance of an earthly body, but you will have the body you envision or believe for yourself. For most people, that body is in the twenties or thirties in age, without blemish or imperfection. If you envision yourself to be a woman, you will be a woman, but there is no sex, so the sexual organs themselves won't matter, although if you envision yourself to have them, yours will be what you envision--a woman's. They just won't have a sexual function.

As you grow and mature, all concern for sexual orientation, because it was purely Earthly, will drop away. However, you will retain a sense of gender and all the anatomy that will support that sense as long as you want to or need to. You determine who you are and your characteristics based on your mental conception of yourself. You will be what you think yourself to be in the afterlife.

Love and peace, Craig