Emilia has two teachers at school this year: Madam Robillaud for four days of the week and Madam Portel on Thursdays. She often talks about her Thursday teacher as the scary one who yells a lot and "gets all red like a tomato".
The other day Emilia announced: "Madam Portel is un garçon manqué."
I quickly searched the corners of my brain for a translation... does she have a boy missing?? something did not sound right. I asked what that means.
"She is a girl but she wants to be a boy" - explained Emilia.
Deep breath... I was not quite prepared to have a transgender discussion with my 7 year old but I couldn't just brush it off.
"Well, yes, sometimes that happens... But how do you know that Emilko? Did she tell you about it?"
"No. Everybody else said that; because she has short hair and she always wears pants."
And just like that a new word got added to my french vocabulary: garçon manqué = Tomboy.
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