There is no boy or girl stuff, she tells Coco.
it’s possible for you to do or be what you want.
How come you know who you are and I dont?
Sofia Otero in ‘20,000 Species of Bees’Berlin Film Festival
she asks her older brother Eneke, a straight-up-and-down boy who is instinctively on his dads team.
They are an abrasively intimate, inquisitive clan, quick to judge.
Will this be the moment Coco wears a frock in public?
Coco is at ease with her, too.
When Nike looks down as Cocos trunks come off, she doesnt turn a hair at what she sees.
Theres a boy in my class with a fanny, she says, matter-of-factly.
It is with Nike that Coco first confides what she now feels is her real name, Lucia.
She cant put a name to what she is experiencing: shes only 8.
Nobody here is going to bang on about gender dysphoria.
Nature has taught her all she needs to know.
And all of them are good.
