When girls won’t be girls (original) (raw)

Growing numbers of teenagers, convinced they have been born in the wrong body, are switching gender. But young people change their minds about lots of things. What if one of them is their gender? Charlie McCann investigates

By Charlie McCann

Max Robinson’s house is full of junk. With her partner Kitty, she likes to comb through the charity shops and yard sales of the dusty city in southern Oregon where they live. Their spoils hang on their living room walls: a painting of a white husky; a tired Lisa Frank backpack decorated with cartoons of prancing pink ponies; a blown-up photo of a Siamese cat mounted on imitation teak.