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Flexible preferences
My working theory is that you're frustrated by the UK legislation, and that actually you're a responsible uncle who wouldn't go through with setting that kind of example to your niece (eg that it is OK to lie to get what you want), and you're using an internet forum to let off steam.

Nope. I guess you were absent from school on the day or two they warned about the folly of making gender assumptions. I'm an aunt.