Tomboy: Girls will be boys

What do you do if your daughter asks to use the boys' loos, or your son wants to go shopping in a fairy dress? Lena Corner gets some gender guidance

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/tomboy-girls-will-be-boys-2357402.html

When Natasha Kittelsen-Clifford's daughter Alice started in year one, overnight she turned into a "tomboy". She cut her hair short, played football and dressed like a boy. "I thought it was just a phase so I just went along with it," says Kittelsen-Clifford, "but my husband was really angry. He tried to force her to wear dresses, but that just made her rebel even more."

It wasn't long before Alice pretty much stopped playing with girls. "And when she went swimming she was really worried that the boys would find out that she was a girl, even though they knew she was a girl. She always wanted to use boys' toilets, too. It was quite extreme and very worrying."

As one of the replies suggests, the whole tone of the article is, Don't worry, they'll grow out of it.

The problem is, I don't actually believe this person exists. The story is just fits the box a bit too well. And it comes from a journalist.

But nice try.