When younger, my daughter was quite the tomboy. She always knew she was a girl. It bothered her how often she was mistaken for a boy

When younger, she was quite the tomboy. She always knew she was a girl. She was horrified when a classmate exhorted her to “just get the surgery’s surgery. That was reading too much into the truth, which was that she just wanted to play, to roughhouse, and to get outside.

Her preferred clothing and activities do not define her.