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When Your Child Questions Their Gender Identity

My four-year-old daughter keeps saying she wants to be a boy and cut her hair short and I don't know if this is normal exploration or something deeper.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent faces the uncertainty of distinguishing between typical childhood experimentation and emerging identity while wanting to respond with both openness and wisdom.

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