In the months before she started nursery, my four-year-old daughter would often say she was a boy.
Little kids say they’re lots of things.
It came unprompted, bubbling up from somewhere pure and certain inside her.
Little kids can be certain of all kinds of things that aren’t true. Certainly is almost always a bad thing, and in a child of four it means nothing.
… Read the restBut the obstacles to her sense of self have started looming, ever since she started nursery in September 2021.
After she’d been attending for a few weeks, she said to me again she was a boy. But then she looked troubled and added that her teacher told her she’s a girl, that