Lilly Thomson^* was just three and a half years old when she first told her mother that she wanted to be a boy. “At first I was a bit worried,” says Claire^*, Lilly’s mother. “She was so passionate about her desire to be a boy. I wondered if I had a gender issue on my hands – like the ones I’ve seen on Oprah.”

Thomson decided that the best course of action was to “respect Lilly’s choices”.

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