When my daughter was young, I made her a hand sewn cotton doll with embroidered face and long braids made of yarn. The doll was stuffed with wool so she would be soft and warm to the touch. A friend of mine admired the doll and offered to pay me to make a boy doll for her son, Toby, who was about 3 years old. She wanted the doll to be anatomically correct, so I made a lovely boy doll, with little boy parts and short hair, like Toby's, made of yellow yarn. Toby decided to name the doll Suzy, and referred to it as "she". His mom asked him why he decided to name his doll Suzy. "Because that's her name." "Why do you call Suzy a 'her' when the doll has a penis and testicles?" "The artist made a mistake", said Toby.
Suzy the doll had a gender reassignment procedure.
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