I have to tell the true story of a girl who was the child of a couple I was very close with. They divorced when she was four years old and the next year she decided she was a boy: she wanted short hair, boys clothes, even to pee standing up, and her father (who had most of the custody) mostly tolerated her decisions without actively enco…
I have to tell the true story of a girl who was the child of a couple I was very close with. They divorced when she was four years old and the next year she decided she was a boy: she wanted short hair, boys clothes, even to pee standing up, and her father (who had most of the custody) mostly tolerated her decisions without actively encouraging or discouraging her. (Of note, she was an extraordinary athlete and was renowned in a variety of organized sports.)When she went to sleepaway summer camp at age 11 or 12 she came back more or less as a girl — and abandoned the boy self. Now, 20 years later, she is very feminine, married (to a man) and has a child and wants more children.
The most minimal morale of the story is that this girl went on a journey as a child and with her parents’ loving and watchful eye, but without intervention, wound up an adult, as a woman. Could this story occur today?
I have to tell the true story of a girl who was the child of a couple I was very close with. They divorced when she was four years old and the next year she decided she was a boy: she wanted short hair, boys clothes, even to pee standing up, and her father (who had most of the custody) mostly tolerated her decisions without actively encouraging or discouraging her. (Of note, she was an extraordinary athlete and was renowned in a variety of organized sports.)When she went to sleepaway summer camp at age 11 or 12 she came back more or less as a girl — and abandoned the boy self. Now, 20 years later, she is very feminine, married (to a man) and has a child and wants more children.
The most minimal morale of the story is that this girl went on a journey as a child and with her parents’ loving and watchful eye, but without intervention, wound up an adult, as a woman. Could this story occur today?