Share 'Gender choice?'

So often I hear people say things like "he wants to be a she" and I find that very irritating because I never felt like it was a choice. In fact, that statement is upside down in my case. I actually *wanted* to be male. Since childhood I just wanted to feel like I was in the correct body and I wanted to be what everybody else expected and assumed me to be - a boy. I tried to be a boy and then a m…