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a freshman girl at Rincon High School in Tucson who identifies as male was nominated for homecoming prince. Last May, a gay male student at a Los Angeles high school was crowned prom queen.
This part is what I have a problem with. You can say that you're male until you're blue in the face, but unless you have a *****, you're a girl. Girls aren't princes and boys aren't queens, sorry.
There's an important distinction to be drawn between sex and gender, because I think you're confusing the two. Sex is a biological fact which can't be changed without surgery. Gender is a social construct, which is by definition subject to change.
Think of it this way. A ***** is an aspect of the male sex, but wearing pants, playing sports and cutting their hair short are all aspects of the male gender. We can see that the latter is mutable: it will change over time depending on social mores. Three hundred years into the future, it may be considered masculine to wear ankle-length dresses, and maybe everyone will be bald so long hair will no longer be seen as effeminate.
You're thinking "This woman is deluding herself, she's not a guy, she hasn't got a *****." But that's her sex, which is mostly immutable. What she wants is to occupy the male role. S/he wants to behave and be treated as a man behaves and is treated. Which means cutting her hair short and stuffing balled-up socks into the crotch of her pants. Your mistake isn't unforgivable, since modern language tends to blend sex and gender together.
It's really a very minor problem to overcome once you get that distinction in your head. There's a reason why medical forms ask for your sex and not your gender.