Natalie Kitroeff

Once, when her dad kicked her a soccer ball, she performed a plie.

But she was still a little kid, and her parents didn't really know what to make of it all, if anything.

I mean, I don't think we were equipped to know what we were experiencing.

So I think very early on,

We thought, oh, this one might be gay.

Was there a moment that you remember kind of starting to realize, huh, this might not be a sexuality thing?

We might be looking at something that's more connected to gender?

Not me.

I was really slow on the uptake.

Yeah, me too.

As Allie got older, though, this difference became harder to ignore.

Particularly, they both say, during this one family trip they took in 2022.

And then we went to Spain.

Oh, okay.

I was wondering if you went.

Yeah, we went to Spain.

And I think we were maybe in different places a little bit at this point.

And we went into this shop.

And then Ali found these headbands and they were made out of metal and they were flowers and they were really pretty.

They were very expensive.