BOSTON (CBS) – A Massachusetts couple knew their child wasn’t happy. So they made the courageous and difficult decision to raise their daughter as a boy at his own request.
As he showed off his collection of rocks and dead bugs in his bedroom, Jacob Lemay also said how he hated his old name. “Cause it was the stupidest name ever,” Jacob said.
He’s talking about the name ‘Mia,’ which was scrapped last June, when his parents and family therapy team concluded the then four-year old was transgender — a little girl wired as a little boy.
“That’s the kind of psychological burden that I don’t think anyone should have to deal with, especially not my child,” Jacob’s mother Mimi said.
They say this wasn’t tomboy stuff or some passing phase.
Mia began verbalizing it at age two, triggering a long family struggle with the subject, as the little girl grew increasingly unhappy and withdrawn — stuck with a gender she did not embrace.
Now, don't get me too wrong, but the child is being raised as a normal kid, and how many normal girls really want to spend the rest of their lives if dresses that are no fun, hair that is a pain in the ass, ill fitting shoes, stupid dolls and learning color coordination?
How exactly does a girl dress like a boy? Blue jeans and a shirt? For crying out loud, all girls and boys dress like that, that is the standard uniform. It is some other bizarre culture that creates the dolled up look as we know it.
And what is a boys name? OK, 'Buck', I give you that. Naming a kid after a dog is definitely a male thing.
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