gender minority

In addition, the process of coming out as a gender minority may or may not be related to sexual orientation, and the concept may have vastly different meanings and applications in the gender minority (GM) community.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that this discomfort occurs when children are a gender minority as well. For example, one colleague reported that when her son was given a choice of making pancakes or building a birdhouse as a group activity, he said explicitly, "I really want to make pancakes, but there are no other boys making pancakes, and I don't want to be the only boy."