I was one of those girls that developed way early, and naturally recess was an absolute horror for me. I was literally tortured by boys on the playground. So at age eleven I sure didn't like BOYS. And after years of fleeing from hordes of little boys trying to grab my boobs, I wasn't too fond of my breasts either, and if someone had offered to make me flat-chested back then I would have jumped at the chance.
I was also very attached to the one or two friends I did have, who were female. I simply adored them. Of course, those feelings were not to be confused with SEXUAL feelings (they certainly weren't, as I learned later through having real sexual feelings). Now they try to tell you that "warm close feelings" for someone of the same sex could mean you're really gay or lesbian. And "feeling different from everybody else". Hell, I may have been an extreme example, but there's not an adolescent out there that doesn't feel like a freak inside, no matter what they look like outside.
Thank goodness I didn't have "enlightened" parents who'd send me to a lesbian support group full of adults, simply because boys made me cry and I hated my body.
Good point H. Most girls today get emotionally attached to each other (ie BEST friends). It starts when they're young and ends later (when they get married or sooner when they are in the workforce).
Girls even fight over friendships with other girls and get jealous, etc. Our culture tries to teach them that these are "lesbian" feelings when in fact they are a normal part of being a girl.
Other girls that in the past were Tomboys and grew out of it are again told by the media/teachers/school/mtb that they are also Lesbians or Transgenders.
In the past it was thought that these girls would "grow out of it" and most did.
Personally if I had a kid that was gender confused I would contact NARTH and get them gender UN-confused immediately.