Because if women really can do anything men can do, that implies (according to Stephen-logic) that he has no reason to identify as male, rather than as a woman who just happens to have a lot of "masculine" traits. Ah, that does make sense. Also why I am ambivalent myself about transition (at the moment at least).

Aha! Thanks for the coding help! (I always thought it was funny that using lj-cut, lj-user etc. work on dw, but you have to specify that you actually mean LJ?)