I always wondered - if it's purely a social construct that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls etc., then why in most stories about a girl trapped in a boy's body we hear her say "I wanted to play with girls" (contrary to society's expectations), "I wanted to play with dolls" etc.?
I googled it up just now - http://prospect.org/article/transgender-candidate
The story of Bindaya Rana (from Pakistani), who was born as a male:
"Bindiya Rana, one of Pakistan’s first transgender candidates [...] “I used to wear my sister’s clothes,” she said. “And use lipstick and powder and nail polish. I wanted to play with dolls and be in the kitchen.” Her parents disapproved when they found her in makeup, beating her."
It's a gaping hole in the theory that we are wired differently "as we grow up due to the different experiences and upbringing men and women are subject to".
If one's self-identified gender could be overriden so easily, there would me much less personal tragedies in this world.