 At two, Karen dressing in skirts for fun was not an issue for Beth. She thought it was a phase. It was cute and funny. But whether trans, non-binary, or cisgender, many kids have some internal sense of their gender by the time they're three years old. And when she was just learning to walk, Karen often wrapped a towel around her head as if it were long hair and then admired her reflection in the oven door.