psmag.com – By Alice Dreger
In my email in-box a few weeks ago, I received a polite message from a woman named Sarah Hoffman who was writing to ask why I was being such a gender conservative. Sarah didn’t quite put it that way, but that was the gist of her message, and given that I’m usually accused of being a gender radical, I sat up and listened. And as I read the whole of Sarah’s message, I realized she was absolutely right.
Sarah identifies herself as a mother of a “pink boy” – a boy whose manner of play and dress has often tended toward what’s common in girls.