A second-grader's idea for the student newapaper: "How about a story about why people are transgendered?"

Described, in the WaPo, by a mother who was volunteering in her son's class.

I had no idea that the girl’s younger sister was about to officially become her little brother.

The next day, my son came home from school and said: “Mom, you know how you really didn’t know what transgender is? It’s just when you have a boy mind in a girl body. Duh.”...

At a birthday party a few weeks later, I saw the transformation. The 4-year-old’s hair was shorn, the clothes were mini-macho and the child was bouncing and wrestling with the pack....

A week later, the mother e-mailed me, asking whether The Post would be interested in doing a piece on their struggle....

ADDED: Whatever happened to just being a tomboy?