article_snippet.sent: The five-year-old was born Mia, the second of three sisters.
article_snippet.sent: Boys will be boys: Mimi and Joe Lemay's five-year-old son Jacob was born a girl named Mia, but the couple has now accepted that the couple child is a boy .
article_snippet.sent: Mimi and Joe began to notice that Jacob was having difficulties when Jacob was a toddler.
article_snippet.sent: : Jacob was born the second of three daughters in the Massachusetts-based Lemay family .
article_snippet.sent: Mimi said that Mimi  was worried that Jacob's behavior would make it harder for Jacob to build relationships - already, Jacob had trouble relating to Jacob peers - and Mimi hoped Mimi child's desire to be a boy would go away.
article_snippet.sent: In the meantime, Mimi and Joe made allowances while Jacob wasn't in public.
article_snippet.sent: Home became a 'battleground over gender', Mimi wrote in a letter to Jacob on Jacob fifth birthday, which was published by The Synapse, continuing that she and Joe decided to let Jacob cut Jacob hair, wear boy clothes, and assume aspects of Jacob male identity at home.
article_snippet.sent: Mimi and Joe saw a glimpse of Mimi and Joe future on an April 2014 trip to Disney World.
article_snippet.sent: Tears in His mother eyes, Mimi told Jacob: 'All we want is for you to be happy, but we need help to understand what will make you happy.'
article_snippet.sent: I realized Jacob had never really been Mia,' Mimi said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Mimi and Joe Lemay of Massachusetts say Mimi and Joe Lemay of Massachusetts son Jacob was never happy as a girl, adding that their son Jacob has called their son Jacob a boy since their son Jacob was two .
  