Scene: Nat is sitting on Mama Shannon's lap discussing various people we know and she refers to babysitter, J, as "she" in one of her common pronoun gender slips.
Mama Shannon: Is J a boy or a girl?
Nat: a boy!
Mama Shannon: What do we say for boys?
Nat: "he"
Mama Shannon: so we say "he" for J.
Nat: no, he's a girl.
Mama Shannon: J's a girl?
Nat: well, maybe she's a boy. She's a boy and a girl.
Mind you, J is a fairly conventionally male person, if sensitive and quite likely "in touch with his feminine side."
Mama Shannon: Well, everybody is kind of a girl and kind of a boy, but most people choose one or the other. What about you? Do you want to be a girl or a boy?
Nat: Well... I want to be Nat!
I congratulated her heartily on her choice and told it was a good one and she can certainly always be Nat.
