[has2k1]

> ... had mind-bogglingly idiotic parents who raised him the wrong gender ...

Though uncommon, XX children can have ambiguous genitalia at birth. Today (1) we have some idea on what it is and we can deal with it at various stages of growth in-utero, at birth, during infant development, at adolescence or even later? Faced with a similar situation the past, parents gambled (aided with biases and superstitions). Is that sufficient to call it idiocy, I do not think so.

1. https://childrensnational.org/choose-childrens/conditions-an...

[ladberg]

Even if they got it wrong at birth, I still don't see why they didn't just say "whoopsie" while s/he was still a baby instead of continuing as male.

[Causality1]

Exactly my point. That could easily have been what happened but that's not what the article says.