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Well, a sexlink is called that because the males are very white and the females are reddish, completely identifiable at hatch. That's the point of a sexlink. How on earth does feeling pelvic bones ID the sex? All that does is tell you if a pullet has been laying eggs, not the sex of the bird.
Sexing, other than the sexlinks, of course, is an art, not an exact science, an educated guess, even when they are usually easily sexable by color differences as in the barred varieties. Even the experts may be fooled by some birds with confusing traits. The "wait and see" method is definitely the most reliable, LOL.
Who should we trust with their prediction?
The person who has raised that particular breed for awhile usually has a real sense of which sex a chick is just from raising them from hatch over and over, not the folks who just guess and have no experience with the breed.
The guy didn't know she was a sex-link. He said he could feel the pelvic bones of a young chicken and the pullets had wider-set bones.
As you can guess, he was no "expert" in my eyes. I kept telling him it was a pullet and he laughed at me. He was a jerk.
I'm just sayin' that some people claim to know the sex of a chicken by one factor or another and especially when there are conflicting opinons about the sex of a bird, it's nice to know who to trust.
Having been here for a bit, I've learned that some people are better with certain breeds.
I'm a firm believer in the wait and see method.