The Guardian
Annalisa Barbieri
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/17/annalisa-barbieri-problem-daughter-gender-brother?newsfeed=trueTonight our daughter began to cry as I was putting her to bed, telling me that she wished she felt more like a girl. When I asked her to explain, she said feeling like a boy was keeping her from playing with the other girls as much as she would like. I said, as we have before, that it is perfectly fine to be a girl who feels like a boy, that there's nothing wrong with that.
Her best friend is much more stereotypically girly and when they have played at dressing-up the last two years or so, our daughter has often played the male role.
My husband and I are both troubled by the fact that our very happy, bright child might be feeling the pressures of gender stereotyping already – she seems to feel somehow different.
