Right now I'm writing a science-fiction book where the main characters a male-to-female transgender and I've been told that if I don't do enough research and follow stereotypes I'm not gonna have a particular good name so I'm just checking if my character sounds genuine or stereotypical: Right the main character lives and believes she's from the year 2007 and also believes she was born a girl(I can't explain how she doesn't know that she's a male-to-female transsexual without giving the storyline away but i can say it involves a war and that she wasn't born until around the year 2010). Now in the book you never actually see her as a boy you only ever see her after the transition and until about Chapter 7 you have no idea that she's a male-to-female transsexual and it's only then that you get suspicions about it thanx to her future self paying a visit during a night while she's in hospital and you eventually find out along with her in Chapter Twelve when she finally meets her Dad and he explains everything to her. At the beginning though she appears to be an ordinary girl just starting High School, she think along with alot of people that she's 11years old(she's actually way past her hundreds(again can't explain without giving away the storyline), she spends hours on the phone gossiping with her mates, she finds out later in the book that she's feminist, she fights for what she believes in and never gives up and this might be abit stereotypical but she loves pink and loves wearing skirts and dresses and really feminine clothing, she wears make-up and is into fashion, she has abit of a masculine side and is mad about Sheffield United but then again there's quite afew girls who are into football. Personality: Kind, loving and forgiving but knows when she can't let something go and when she must do something even if it means killing someone she will do it if it will result in a greater good in the end(the story is based around a war partly caused by her father), she's very sensitve and is easily upset as when she meets her father she ends up at a school where everyone knows who she is and that she's a male-to-female transsexual and people give her a really hard time. In the book her father is the greatest man to have ever lived, he gave the human race and other new discovered species the largest empires in the Universe until the whole thing was under human control, he was also the greatest scientist to ever have lived in the book and thanx to his research he is over 6million years old but still has alot to learn but thanx to his research in gender and male-to-female transition and vise versa and DNA studies his daughter is biologicaly a girl and is capable of anything an ordinary female is capable of doing. And that is basically my main character for now as I can say she is yet to be improved and I just want to know to help me with improving her: Does she sound like genuine M2F transgender or a stereotypical one? (If she does sound stereotypicakl could you leave me some advice on how to make her sound genuine. If you wish to steel this go ahead but I followed a teacher's advice to tell a couple of friends I trust incase anyone steels it so I have people who know when I came uop with the idea, also I have it all dated on computer so steel it and I'll sue you for copyright theft.