She may very well have had a normal interset in being a tomboy, but of course a normal parent would never have allowed (or rather, programmed in) “gender” confusion/reality reassignment.
Gotta be a real corrupted soul to think a child’s natural human (IOW, *God*-given) nature is somehow optional or disposable. Reality deniers have become more and more extreme, as every new abomination they think up goes unchallenged.
This is why I think, as someone said above, that conservatives have to drop “gender” as a concept. With very rare exceptions of genetic damage, we are male or female. That is immutable. How each of us chooses to dress, what interests each of us, and so on, is our individuality. It doesn’t change our sex, and it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with our sexual desires.
I think that reasonable parents could say, “Shiloh wants to wear a suit to be like her brothers,” without adding, “because she’s ‘really’ male, not female.” When I was a Girl Scout leader, one of my friends had a son who had three older sisters. He “wanted to be a girl,” because Girl Scouts did fun things.
At my suggestion, she made him a t-shirt that said “Troop 123’s Little Brother,” and he wore it whenever the Girl Scouts were doing something fun. Eventually, he got old enough for Cub Scouts and didn’t have to be a GS tagalong.
My youngest - a girl after four boys - will end up being Pack 198’s Little Sister. That won’t turn her into a boy, no matter how hard she insists she’s a Cub Scout.
I think Shiloh feels more love and acceptance from her dad and adopted brothers than her mother. AJ is insanely jealous, and neurotic, her attempts to Munchausen Shiloh are manifesting in Shiloh camoflaging the beauty of inside and out that apparently upsets AJ. AJ doesn’t like women, not even her own kids, except as sex objects.
Shiloh will get out of this, maybe go live with Grampa Jon, and once out of the poison will do her own thing in a skirt and charm Hollyweird and everybody else senseless.
The rest, I'd bet mom-- who is no stranger to getting off on negative attention--put into her head. It doesn't take much to poison a young child's mind. Especially one who, probably, desperately seeks the mother's attention and approval.
Really sad.