Actually the idea of the gender switch story telling is a good one.
Try a couple things,
1) Listen on the sly to a group of men/women talk among themselves. That helps with character dialog. In addition, it gives an insight into common assumptions within the gender.
2) Use your imagination, figure out how biological differences will affect the big picture, the minor details, and the mindset of men/women.
3) In Biology form determines function, and one gender is much more important to reproduction which makes the other more willing risk takers. Also consider the physical act of copulation and what the ramifications are to the mind set.
4) Use your cultural cues, They exist and are a common background but of course in the story you create you play off them and challenge them. Just remember they need to be in the reader’s gestalt for you to do that.