Back in the good old days, a 6 year old boy so much as touched a doll and his father would use a switch and beat some sense into him. He might have to do it every day for months until the boy died, but that is better than him living his life after having played with dolls.
On a more serious note, back in the good old days, pregnant women didn’t consume copious amounts of tasty and nutritious natural and synthetic chemicals that could seriously impact their unborn children.
Farmers didn’t spray plant estrogen on their crops to increase yields, though quantities in the microgram level of these hormones are as potent as LSD. Lots of nice additives, preservatives and all sorts of other chemicals are used today as well.
Actually, it’s no surprise that many children are physically and mentally fouled up today. But the old solutions no longer work. You cannot counsel or parental discipline a birth defect away.
This child is one of triplets-I don’t know the sex of his siblings-but just suppose in the womb he missed the hormonal bath for boys and gets one for girls. I think we are all born on a sexual continuum. Just like children that are born differently some with cleff palletes, which wonderfully can be corrected, two girls with one body and two heads and different personalities, 4 limbs-And the family has done wonders in accepting both girls and personalities, complications in the future to be assured but I’ve watched them through baby-hood to high school and they are well adjusted personalities. They’ll figure out how to make the best of a not normal situation. That’s what this family with the one triplet who feels he is a girl. They haven’t pushed him, he has pushed them. He’ll find his way with parental support.