Apparently, he wasn’t seen as masculine enough.

Now comes the story of a girl apparently thought by her school as not feminine enough.

It happened last month but is just now coming out — everywhere.

The 8-year-old Lynchburg, Va., girl has an affinity for autographed baseballs, collector coins and hunting knives. She likes to wear T-shirts and sneakers. She plays sports. And she keeps her hair short.

Her private Christian school sent a letter to her grandmother and guardian saying she should dress and act more like a girl.

It states:

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“You’re probably aware that Timberlake Christian School is a religious, Bible believing institution providing education in a distinctly Christian environment … We believe that unless Sunnie as well as her family clearly understand that God has made her female and her dress and behavior need to follow suit with her God-ordained identity, that TCS is not the best place for her future education.”

The letter also states that Sunnie Kahle’s fellow students have been confused about whether she is a boy or a girl.

The school says there’s more to the story and takes issue with the “narrative,” which has come from her family. But citing confidentiality reasons, it declines to explain.

She knows she’s a girl, her grandmother said. She simply likes all kinds of toys — regardless of what societal norms say.

“Sunnie realizes she’s a female, but she wants to do boy things,” Doris Thompson, Sunnie’s grandmother and legal guardian, told WDBJ. “She wants to play rough and tough.”

The family has pulled her out of Timberlake Christian Schools.

ABC 27 reported that an administrator from the school said the issue goes “far beyond her hair length” and that Sunnie is a good student, but that “things disturbed the classroom environment.”

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Now, Sunnie is in public school. But, her grandmother said, she cries every morning because she misses her old friends.

The school issued this statement on March 25: