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[quote=Anonymous]My stepson has been like this since birth. He doesn't say he's a girl, but he has always identified with "girl" things.  If he plays fantasy, he's the princess. He likes pink, doing hair, pretends to put on makeup, etc. He plays "mommy" not "daddy" (like our other son does) He's still in elementary school, so we can't really tell what his sexual preferences are yet. We are working on the assumption that he is gay, but that's in the background because he is still too young to be sexually aware.

I agree with 13:49 that all you can do at this point is love him and if you have to do any mental adjusting to be okay with who he is if he does turn out to be gay/transgendered you work through your issues now. It's been a little challenging for my DH, but while he sometimes has expressed some private disappointment, he has never done anything but treat his son with love and affection, and he doesn't have any favoritism for any of his children.   We all know the children are who they are, and that's how you have to interact with them. [/quote]

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