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[–]jet199 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think it's ridiculous.

I act think people have an instinct to have friends of their own sex, that is the case in the vast majority of friendship groups. I've seen many people who have the opposite instinct often have a hard time of it and think people need to be tolerant of a behaviour they can't help.

You think your preference is just normal because it's normal for you. That teacher had probably seen hundreds of little girls so was in a far better position to see it wasn't. There's nothing wrong with with being different, you shouldn't feel the need to attack people who point it out in a neutral way. Gender non conforming behaviour is far more common in children who grow up to be homosexual so that is relevant, where you like it or not.

When you think about it wanting to play with boys or other girls is a far less regressive measure of gender non conformity than what clothes or toys kids prefer.