Thank You for the sweet response Christine. You may have hit the nail on the head. I had similar natural tendencies but they were literally beaten out of me. I invited all girls to my first-grade birthday party. I remember my mother asking why I hadn’t invited any boys? Probably because I was surrounded by them. I have five brothers, and they made it their mission to ‘toughen me up.’ Much of my post transition has been about reviving my original nature and reconnecting to women as my preferred social group.