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Excellent points. There is no biological or moral law that says girls are supposed to like sequins and sashes and ballet slippers and giggle-sounds and the color pink and barbiedolls or painted toes, and boys like fart-sounds and the color blue and tonka trucks and explosions (though many do!) --- but it's these flippin, organ-snippin' trans activists who want to multilate boys' and girls' genitals to make them conform to the stereotype.

Alleged statement from a 3-year-old boy: "I feel like a girl inside." Hogwash: he has no idea what a girl feels like inside. He feels like, precisely, himself, and only himself, a boy, inside. But somebody told him that very experience was feeling like a girl.

When I think about it, I get pretty angry.

Full disclosure: I remember my first time as a bride's maid, when I was about 18, having my hair "done up" and my face "made up" (and my glasses taken away from me) and being peer-pressured into a silky bridesmaid dress: I tolerated it with good humor, since I didn't want to refuse my friend's festive request, but I distinctly remember feeling like a "female impersonator." I did. It just wasn't my style.

But that never made me less a woman. Sheesh.

I like your story. When I was a young girl I was called a “tomboy”. I had a horse and I rode Sugarfoot everywhere. I wore boys bluejeans because I don't think they even made blue jeans for girls back in the early 50’s, at least not where we shopped.

I remember thinking to myself that I was going to wear bluejeans my whole life and I didn't care what anyone else thought! I am 73 and I do still wear jeans but it's nothing unusual now for women to wear them, but I don't ride horses anymore.

Alleged statement from a 3-year-old boy: "I feel like a girl inside." Hogwash: he has no idea what a girl feels like inside. He feels like, precisely, himself, and only himself, a boy, inside. But somebody told him that very experience was feeling like a girl.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner! In all these cases, the child's subjective experience, whatever it may be, is being narrated and programmed to accomplish something for the adults.