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As far as anyone knows, no. Despite his strange wardrobe and eccentricities, I think he always identified as male. It's possible that if he had gotten into his career these days, he might possibly have identified as "gender-fluid," because his clothes and behavior always seemed like a weird mix of masculine and feminine.

Now I do think he had hormones injected into him to give him a high voice, and hanging out with Hollywood types no doubt led him to adopting a vaguely feminine voice, weird clothing styles, and very strange mannerisms. I can confirm that he did not bleach his skin. He had some really weird autoimmune disorder that caused flecks and pale patches to form on his skin, so he was forced to wear makeup a lot. I have no doubt he also had plastic surgery done on his face, though why he wanted to look like his sister, I have no idea. There are a lot of things we'll probably never understand about him, even with interviews with his closest friends, family, and biographies written about him.

He paid the family of the kid $25 million. They family dropped the charges, refused to let their children testify...no case.

I assume that the case is sealed for some time. Rumors had it that the kid accurately described Jackson's genitalia, which had distinctive marks from the vitiligo in which he suffered from.

It seems that he was obsessed with kids, which is obviously not healthy. But I think it wasn't sexual, it was more of a childhood trauma from which he never recovered, and being surrounded by children was a way to 'recover his childhood', so to say.

I think he saw himself as a child, hence his friendships with children.
He was very strange, but I don't think he intended any harm.
These are just my opinions and I cannot give you facts to support my feelings.

Michael thought he was Peter Pan. All that plastic surgery he had was to make him look like that character.

He was a strange dude. I can't say with complete certainty he abused some of those kids, but it was pretty inappropriate for him to sleep in the same bed.

Bad.

I don't think he was trans, although I do think he had some kind of identity dysphoria.

But, in terms of whether he did it or not: yes, I think he did it. He molested/sexually assaulted children, making him an ephebophile.

As someone in their thirties, with nephews and nieces, with childish interests, who gets along with kids and who doesn't relate to a lot of adults; I still don't get how anyone can think an adult male choosing to spend alone time with other people's young children (children he's not related to by blood or marriage) can be considered simply eccentric. Your own uncle could not get away with doing this without being labelled creepy.

This is a man who was sexually active, so it's not like he was asexual and therefore just not interested. He also never shared any of his child "friendships" with any of the women he dated, as far as I know, so it's not as though he was trying to impress them by showing off his future parenting skills. The children had parents, so he didn't fill that role. If he had hired them as dancers, then they also had jobs and money, so he wasn't filling that role. If they were disadvantaged, he could have given their parents free tickets to Disneyland and left it at that.

I don't know if everything or anything in the documentary is true. But I'm also not 12 and this isn't the 90s, so I do think he's an ephebophile.

Told some guy to beat it, so that he wouldnt get hurt by other people.