Some kids have imaginary friends. Davy has an imaginary enemy. Whenever something is broken or misplaced in the house, whenever someone makes a mess, it’s Goo-Goo Face’s fault. I have no idea where Goo-Goo Face came from but he’s now a staple of Davy and Robin’s play: any time a villain is needed, it’s generally Goo-Goo Face. Goo-Goo Face is, conveniently, invisible to everyone but Davy. <\/p>\n
Davy, by the way, isn’t even Davy at the moment. He’s decided his name should be Bat and we’re all doing our best to honor this decision.<\/p>\n
We actually got into this fix because I was trying to explain about trans people in a way a five-year-old can understand. What I said to Robin and Davy (sorry, Bat) is that usually<\/em> boys have penises and girls have vaginas, but sometimes a boy is born with a vagina or a girl is born with a penis, because it\u2019s really what\u2019s in your heart that makes you a girl or a boy. And then the parents might think they have a baby girl when in fact they have a baby boy, and they won\u2019t know that they were wrong until the baby gets old enough to tell them that he\u2019s actually a boy. I thought I was rocking along quite well with this.<\/p>\n So the artist formerly known as Davy had some questions about what happens then, like, what if the boy has a girl\u2019s name? And I said the parents might have to change the name. And then<\/em> I said (and this is where I made my fatal mistake, in retrospect) \u201cwe thought you were a boy when you were born so we named you Davy, but if you told us we were wrong, then we would let you choose a new name.\u201d<\/p>\n And he said, \u201cI am a boy but my name isn\u2019t Davy, my name should be Bat.\u201d<\/p>\n