“Papa, you look like a girl,” laughed Cookie Monster. “Why?” replied Hapa Papa. “Is it because I have Sasquatch in an Ergo*?” “Yeah!” I had to interject. “Remember, Cookie Monster, there are no boy clothes or girl clothes. Just clothes. Just like there are no boy things or girl things. Just things.” “Oh, yeah!” “Do you know what the only difference between girls and boys is?” I continue. “What?” “A boy has a penis and a girl has a vagina.” I pause, because technically, that is not always true. “Actually, sometimes, girls are born without penises but their brains feel like they are boys, so they don’t have penises but are still boys.” “Some boys are born with penises but they are actually girls so they also are girls,” Hapa Papa continued, surprising me. “How does that happen?” Cookie Monster giggled. “Some people just change the way they dress for awhile, or they take special medicines to…
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