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Minor nitpicks: "transsexual" is written with two S's, and when writing about positive charges, you probably meant "attracts negatively charged particles".
On to the subject:
If the "gender flag" is there for the purposes of reproduction, how can non-heterosexuals and childfree people exist?
More importantly, the "flight" flag is observable: we can look at a card and see that it reads "flying". Assuming we could do a full brain scan, what would be your prior expectation for finding this gender flag? Would you expect to be able to identify transsexuals by this flag in close correlation to their self-reporting? What would you do about false positives and false negatives, if those turned out to exist?
Just because something has a purpose, doesn't mean it necessarily achieves it. This is especially so when the designer is the blind idiot God. See Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers for some discussion of this phenomenon.
Fixed, thanks.