Relate to?... 99.9999% of the time you are a male or a female. It doesn’t matter what you “relate” to, if this kid decides tomorrow that he is truly a DOG, will you all be so happy to put a collar and leash on him and make him poop in the backyard and tell society to call him Spot?
ROFL
When I was 6, I wanted to be a horse. Not a rider (I was already riding at that age) but a horse. I would go to bed praying that I would wake up as a horse, lazing around my parent's backyard. Thank God my rampant imagination (which really was something of a fixation) was not in any way encouraged by my family!