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[quote=Anonymous]Can someone out there please help me to understand this one: a dear friend of mine who is a lesbian and had a daughter through DI is upset that all the adults that her child meets and the kids in her child's school assume that her 8 year old daughter is a boy, YET, since the child was very little ( one or two years old) my friend has only bought her boys clothes, and cut her hair really short. My friend basically dresses her daughter the way that she herself dresses ( very butch) .  Then she gets annoyed and says thing like , " see that person thought she was a boy too, "did you hear that, that guys just called her a he" etc.. To me, it seems that people are making  a simple two second calculation based on visual clues and the need to pick a personal pronoun to put in a sentence " your daught... or your son.....simple as that. My friend is far more interested in pursuing that maybe her daughter is a boy inside and that people somehow sense this , hence "see, he thought she was a boy" . My friend says that those are the clothes her daughter wants to wear, but really I don't think a 18 month old chooses, the parent does and she even buys her boys underwear. WTF.

My gut tells me this is more about my friend, not her child. Anyone experienced with this ?[/quote]

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