Scarlett, you have described (IMHO) exactly what occurs with many of the kids who feel like they were born into the wrong body or are a homosexual. For example, if you define being gay to a young child as “liking people in your own gender” then yes... so many kids are going to think they are gay. during elementary school and middle school (and even into high school), I thought boys were really gross (because to be honest, they were). Boys hung out with other boys because girls were (yucky, different, etc). How many girls who like sports, motorcycles, fishing, etc.. would be told they may not be straight because of their interests? With society defining women/girls with examples of high gloss, surgically enhanced, morally bankrupt female images... lots more will choose not to define themselves in that light.
Oh come on...what's not to like about spending your allowance on Wacky Packages, punching each other on birthdays, eating dirt, and thinking deodorant is for sissies.
...on second thought...