I feel bad for the other two boys. This part:
“Grade one was confusing as some peers were saying she wasn’t a girl,’ Nikki said. ‘However, we chose to move Ella and the rest of our kids.
‘Ella’s new school was a perfect place for her to explore who herself further and her teachers have been so supportive too. She has a great group of friends around her as well.”
So the other two boys (who are talked about in this article as just a monolith afterthought, who don’t get separate personalities or needs because they’re just the boring “cis boys”) have to get moved around and uprooted for the golden child. They are the backup singers, only there to be “supportive.”
I was in high performance sport as a kid and one thing the sports psychologist told our families was to make sure that they didn’t go all in on the “talented child” - that the school play or piano recital or great score on a test from siblings was just as important and they needed to make sure they made just a big a deal about that as a national championship meet etc. They told our parents it puts too much pressure on the athletic child, that children are sensitive and will feel they can’t let the family down, and that it’s unhealthy and breaks the relationship between siblings and kids need a balanced home to develop and perform well.
This article shows all the signs of that. The one child front and center, the other kids not even named. The home is “her safe space” but what about the other children? Did they get a party for starting school, or a football win, or anything they do?