Articles like this really bother me. The mother starts paying attention when the trans kid says "I want to be a boy" and she realizes that it isn't that he "wants to be a boy".
This is pernicious. It spreads the dangerous misconception that we all feel like a member of the opposite sex, when there are thousands of us that experience being transgender as a longing rather than a certainty.
Makes me wonder how many trans kids say "I want to be a boy" and their parents assume they're not trans because of misinformation in articles like this.
