A Massachusetts couple knew their child wasn’t happy. So they made the difficult decision to raise their daughter as a boy at [her] own request.

As [she] showed off [her] collection of rocks and dead bugs in [her] bedroom, Jacob Lemay also said how [she] hated [her] old name. “Cause it was the stupidest name ever,” Jacob said.

[She’s] talking about the name ‘Mia,’ which was scrapped last June, when [her] parents and family therapy team concluded the then four-year old was transgender — a little girl wired as a little boy.

“That’s the kind of psychological burden that I don’t think anyone should have to deal with, especially not my child,” Jacob’s mother Mimi said.

“I want to change the way that society perceives and accepts transgender people,” Mimi said. “Because this is the society that my son [i.e., her daughter] will grow up in.”