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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that this is considered something the needs assessment or evaluation. I was a tom boy and spent my childhood doing traditionally boy things. I never owned or played with a doll, didn't care about tea parties or dress up. I wanted to get dirty, climb trees and wrestle. Iit didn't mean anything - just what I enjoyed. It had nothing to do with my sexuality or gender identity.[/quote]

Folks there is a continuum about how we express our gender and sexual identity. For girls it's being ultra girlie, feminine and into frills to the opposite end of the spectrum where a child born with female sex parts feels is she was meant to be a boy. Not do boy things or dress like a boy, but BE A BOY. Most kids fall somewhere in the middle. My daughter insists on wearing her brother's clothes and playing rough with boys. She's 8 and I cannot tell you when I last saw her in a dress. But she has not expressed a deep longing to actually be a boy. She knows she is a girl and is totally fine with that.

There are a very small percentage of children who do have that intense need to be the other sex in every way possible. Perhaps OP's friends are wondering where their son falls in this continuum and want to be able to support him wherever that is.

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