IE perfectly normal and probably health boy behaviour.

Banters and tends to do so by exaggerating everything upwards in a competitive spiral with their brother. Surly, uncommunicative most of the time, spends every available moment killing things in video games. In fact they show all the behaviour that tends to be associated with teenage boys. They still don't exhibit any behaviour which meets the stereotype associated with being female. They now wish to be identified as 'she', which is OK by us. At no point did my wife or I recognise anything about their behaviour which was stereotypical of girls. One of my kids has decided they don't feel comfortable with their biologically assigned gender. > When I read of parents declaring they realized their child was a girl-in-a-boy's-body because she was quiet and preferred the pink blanket, I can only shake my head. Unless or until such time as language evolves to accommodate this phenomenon, unusual usage is simply drawing attention to the thing that is supposed to be irrelevant so avoidance would seem to be the best policy. There's a strong case for not using pronouns if they can be avoided: they're actually confusing if you have more than one he or she and they is very non-specific. Few people would be bothered about someone choosing the way he/she/they talk(s) about him/her/themselves, but it's more of an issue when that person insists they have a right to enforce that choice on other people - I certainly wouldn't be referring to anyone as Lord X or Your Majesty, for example, however much offence was taken and I doubt I could call anyone 'The Artist Formerly Known as Prince' with a straight face. The real problem with the pronoun debate is that a pronoun is something that someone else uses to refer to you. Of course, we have a perfectly acceptable gender-neutral pronoun in English: it, but it's associated with inanimate objects and to use it in connection with people is unlikely to be helpful. Lots of languages have gendered pronouns but that can get mixed up with grammatical gender and case so the gendered pronouns may not always be distinguishable.

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