There is a mother's husband; whether this is the boy's father is not made clear.
Rebekah gravitated toward pink, purple, sparkles and girl clothes ...
There are no sisters mentioned, so one wonders where the "girl clothes" came from. One also wonders when a liking for purple became a "gender" marker.
I firmly believe that one reason so many people "identify" as "gender nonconforming" is that few normal human beings can fit in the "conforming" box. Guess what? My four violent, filthy young sons like "sparkles," too: especially shards of glass, broken mirrors, and things with glitter in them that blow up.
There are other articles on this boy out there and all of the refer to the pastor as “her husband” and not as a father.
Seems like a very very low probability he is the father.
Which begs the question where the father went and why he allows this.
Reading other material put out by the boy’s mother, it is very clear that she intended for this to happen from his earliest days.
This is a law enforcement case if ever there was one - is anyone at the LEO wheel in the state of NJ?
There. Fixed that.
That's usually the question in these cases. Mom doesn't have a daughter or doesn't want another boy so changes one of the sons into a girl. Sick.
But I never did. In fact, I never started regularly wearing skirts/dresses until I was in my 60's.
I'd better go ask my husband and sons: does that mean all that time I wasn't a girl?