Canada.com – Ethan Baron, The Province
William, born female, has always known he was really male.
At age two, his mother was dressing the family’s children — three daughters — for a Christmas Eve party. William, who then had a girl’s name, was having none of it.
“He said, ‘Little boys do not wear dresses,'” his mother told The Province. “That was one of the last times we ever put a dress on him.”
His real name isn’t William, but the Fraser Valley teenager, now 19, says he’s suffered discrimination because of the kind of person he is, and using his real name would expose him to further bigotry.