there's not a single trans person alive I've asked how they knew that doesn't start wih "as a kid, I liked playing with (sterotypes) instead of (sterotypes)" LMFAO
Did you actually ask any trans people? At all? Because I doubt I'm the only trans woman who never really felt especially interested in "girl" things when I was a girl. In fact, when I was a kid I didn't really have a problem with living as a boy, except that I didn't really feel comfortable with my male genitals even then. Not too bad then, but when I found out girls didn't have this junk I started thinking like that might be better.
Of course, if the question is, when did I know I was trans, the answer is not until I googled altavista'd the term "sex change" when I was in middle school and found a couple of Web sites run by transgender women, and I kinda thought "oh I think I'm that too". But I had started thinking I wanted to be a girl before then (why I was looking up "sex change"). Because girls didn't have penises and that seemed like it would be nice, and yeah as I got older I did start to think that I'd be more comfortable with "girl" stuff than "boy" stuff. Of course, it was never really "being girly" that I wanted, just I felt like I'd be happier on that side of the line as one of the girls. But, in the end, it was really a deep dissatisfaction with my male body that was the most important driver for my embracing a transgender identity, not a desire to wear pretty dress or whatever TER"F"s think must have been going through my head. Though, having now embraced my womanhood, I find that the freedom to express my gender as I see fit is quite a wonderful thing. And if I choose to adopt a conventionally feminine aesthetic then so what? I'm really just being myself. TER"F"s sure do love policing gender roles though, don't they?