‘I’ve made a huge mistake’
Cat Cattinson, 31
Stomping around the house in my dad’s boots, I pulled at my mum’s trouser leg.
‘Can I be a boy when I grow up?’ I asked.
It was 1996 and, aged 5, I didn’t feel like other girls I knew.
I liked to dress up in my dad’s clothes, pretend to be Peter Pan or Robin Hood.
‘No, little girls can’t be boys,’ Mum laughed. But something just didn’t feel right.
By the time I was 13, in 2004, we had the internet on our family computer.
I found a forum full of
