Her best friend from class felt the same sense of failure as a girl—not nearly feminine or glamorous enough. At a male friend’s house, they began exploring together the possibility that they might be trans—or at least non-binary. “We were sitting at this house and we started talking and I was just like, ‘You know, I don’t think I’m a girl. I don’t feel like a girl.’ ” The boy was gay, and his parents had been giving him a hard time for how feminine he was acting. He decided he was trans, too. When they told another friend of theirs what the three of them had decided, the fourth friend came to
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