"Confronting different people and places has taught me to understand and accept diversity, but above all, it has made me become a curiosity junkie. This is the conclusion Camila reaches after verifying that her son has always felt the desire to be a girl.
In fact, far from putting any obstacle or obstacle, Camila decides to take her son's hand and help him during the process of searching for his own identity, a path during which they will have to face numerous prejudices and the lack of information that characterize the world around them."
"Camilla is 46 years old, lives with three children aged 14 to 8 and a dog. Hers is a "normal" family, with the particularity that Federico, the second son, biologically male, since he was one and a half years old he has expressed the desire and need to be (also) a girl: he wants to wear pink skirts and dresses and sparkles, he prefers the company of female friends, in the games he identifies with fairies and not with Spider-Man. And Camilla decided not to hinder him, to listen, to go along with him. Because then Federico is happier.
She began to research, to read, to find stories similar to her own on the Internet. She found that there is gender dysphoria, and there are transgender children, gender fluid children, gender smoothie children, non-binary children, and others. In short, there are many paths in which the atypical developments of gender identity are channeled, and Federico follows his own. With determination and delicacy, and a good dose of irony, Camilla tells the story of Federico, 9 years old, a serene and aware child, with long hair and pink nail polish.
She talks about her family's daily life, with school and the swimming pool, shopping at the butcher's, birthday parties, the pressures of the social context.
She talks about her doubts and fears, her continuous questioning and trying to understand. It's all quite complicated, but Camilla is sure of one thing: it's not the non-conforming person who has to adapt, it's not the parents who have to tune in to protect their child, but it's the others who have to learn to know, understand and welcome."
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