People are sometimes born with a female brain and male genitalia/body. When was Jenner born, in the 40s? If this kid had been born in the 40s he would have been shushed and slapped and he would have lived a life like Jenner described. Trying so hard to be male that maybe he would have been a high achiever in some male aspect of life.
Now, parents are practically prepared by their baby books to accept and be tolerant of children expressing the feeling they are another gender. And so they will do idiotic things like this.
As a mom of three sons, THIS WAS WAYYY TOO EARLY. Many kids up to age 5-6 do some gender bending or prefer the toys of the other gender. MOST OF THEM don’t stay “transgender.” It is a phase. I had toddlers wish they could wear tampons like me — grow up to be manly hetero men!! Toddlers can wear makeup, play with all sorts of things. They are children just being themselves.
What should Mom have done that day in the car? She should have said, “I’m sorry you’re so sad, Jack.” And accept his EMOTION, and help him find a place for it. None of us love all that we have been dealt with but it doesn’t mean we need to hang a different moon in the sky.
To a three year old, it could be very sad when his sister goes to school. It could be really sad when he sees kids doing something his family cannot afford. If this little one really does have this disorder that the libs call “transgender,” it is too young to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Even if he cries daily about it, at first you have to just hug and support him, and maybe make up funny stories to make him feel better, like A Boy Wishes He Were A Girl and what adventures he might have. First, he should feel his parents love him no matter what, and that he has something uncomfortable going on, and they will be there for him through it all. He doesn’t need to transition at 3!!! This makes me upset.
If the boy had cancer, he would be sad he had cancer and couldn’t live the way he wanted. His parents couldn’t click their fingers and make the cancer go away, so they have to own their experience together. This is the same thing.
See the post above yours, post 33.