My 3 year old wants to be a girl
My 3 year old was assigned male at birth, and I love him more than anything. Since starting preschool, he has said that he wants to be a girl a couple times. A few months ago he said he wants me to “take away his penis” and more recently he has said he wants to wear girl clothes. He mostly plays with girls, and he says that if he were a girl, more girls would play with him. He says that boys won’t play with him, but I’m not sure how true that is.
I’ve told him that he can be a girl if he wants to be, and I’ll help him. That said, I can’t sense how he really feels. This evening I asked him if he wants to be a girl all the time, and he said “yes,” but I worry that I’m not asking the right questions. He has told me that he wants to be a girl at night, at bedtime when it is just the two of us. How can I support him at this age?