When my boys were preschoolers there was a little boy in the neighborhood about their age. He lived with his mother, sister and grandmother. His father had never been in the picture. My sons referred to him with the female pronouns. Just saying.
I was in the Dollar store with my youngest, he was about 4 at the time. Another mother and son were in front of us on line. This little boy was pitching a fit over wanting this Barbie doll. The mother was trying to reason with him, saying he ALREADY had that one at home. Gave me the heebee jeebies, meanwhile my four year old blurted out, “He’s a boy, why does he want a Barbie?”