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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]09:42. I don't actually think that I feel like a man or a woman inside.  I'm just me, with my own unique set of interests and characteristics.  I don't dispute that others may feel differently.  I'm just trying to figure out how to explain this to my daughter in a way that isn't sexist, and enforces cultural gender stereotypes.  [/quote]

I would start by saying, "We all feel differently. For example, I don't feel like a man or a woman inside."

Also, maybe read some writing by transgender people about transgender identity. I don't think I've ever read anything by a transgender person that said anything like, "I like trucks, so I felt like a boy." or "I like cooking, so I felt like a girl."[/quote]
This. Being trans* has little to do with culturally-assigned gender roles, and more to do with personal biology and chemistry. Years ago, I taught a trans* individual (a first-grader), who by outside appearances was "all boy." (S)he was born a biological male, loved robots and knights (not princesses), among lots of other interests, and didn't wore the same clothes as six-year-old male peers. But (s)he knew on the inside that (s)he was a girl, and the family was in therapy to learn exactly what that meant and how best to support the child.

This isn't a decision that's taken lightly. Trans =/= drag queen (or drag king). In fact, Carmen Carrera, who appeared on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race, came out as trans* during the reunion special, and announced that she could no longer be a drag performer because she had realized she was a real woman, not a caricature of one.[/quote]

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