Nobody can be blamed for assuming this little girl was a boy. What matters, however, is how we respond when the child is old enough to turn round and say that we got it wrong in their case. It helps, of course, to be sophisticated enough to be able to accept such an assertion with the respect it deserves. If society attaches such importance to gender then it's hardly a trivial thing when you know you've been dragooned into the wrong one. Transsexuals need help, not hindrance, if they are to manage a transition which affects every single way in which they relate to the world around them.
Society only has two social genders to choose from.
Man and Woman. It is, in short, like breaking a man's leg because you don't want to accept that he can walk. And that is all that we in Press for Change seek from British society. The right to walk. To stand on our own two feet after being forced to crawl for almost thirty years.