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For quite a few years I wanted to be a boy, I guess partly because I was told by many adults that I was not girly enough, and I have few βgirlyβ interests. My personality does not fit the stereotypical girl one either. Itβs only after accepting I do not have to care about stereotypes that I am happy to be female. Definitely agree with Seagoon to ask her what she thinks it means to be a girl or a boy, whether she just wants to do what boys do, or whether she (he?) identifies as one.
I can relate to what you said about being comfortable as a woman only after you dropped the stereotypes of what it means. I remember spending time looking in the mirror as a teen, wondering if I was meant to have been born male and I was somehow a mistake.
I suspect this might be what Miniest is feeling. Like mother like daughter! And like others said, you are doing a great job!