This is a heart rending story - it is too bad that the small minds are able to drive out a warm caring person like that. I also am a male with a female avi. I have always played females in ANY game where that is an option. It has nothing whatsoever to do with getting into someone's drawers - it has to do with wanting to be comfortable with who I am inside. I have a male avi - he is not me and I am not comfortable playing him. Frankly, I have had only two people that I've been really close to and before it went too far I told them. One is now a FB friend as well. There are so many crass, self righteous bigots in SL it is sickening. But since I choose my friends based not on their age, race, nationality, sex, sexual preference, or any other meaningless category that people wish to use to justify their narrow minds, I have quite a few good friends and two that are totally special.