Her parents noticed this and causally talked about it but it was not of major concern to them, after all there were many girls who were tom-boys in the neighbourhood so they thought she was just like them. They always laughed off the fact that she liked behaving like a boy. She would play football with the boys and even go to the extent of naming herself after male footballers. Her parents thought that was normal since football was dominated by males whom many young people looked up to. The girl did not like to dress up like other girls and preferred wearing boys clothes.
When Jane reached puberty, a lot of changes happened to her body that she was not comfortable with. She did not like the fact that her breasts were growing bigger and she also started menstruating. The desperate girl started covering her breasts in shame. Before they developed, she looked liked the boys that she interacted with and all that was changing. The boys began to hate playing with her since they thought she should find friends among other girls. As if that was not enough, she began developing feelings towards other girls. She tried hard to hide these feelings since she did not want to be scorned by the others. The poor girl confided in one of the teachers at her junior secondary school who instead of protecting her started spreading rumours about her.
