What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

NY Slimes ^ | 8/9/12 | RUTH PADAWER

[wolfman23601]

The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).” They explained that Alex had recently become inconsolable about his parents’ ban on wearing dresses beyond dress-up time. After consulting their pediatrician, a psychologist and parents of other gender-nonconforming children, they concluded that “the important thing was to teach him not to be ashamed of who he feels he is.” Thus, the purple-pink-and-yellow-striped dress he would be wearing that next morning. For good measure, their e-mail included a link to information on gender-variant children.

[Oztrich Boy]

No. it’s a skirt.

[Morgana]

You have a million of them don’t you? :P~~~~~~~~~

[a fool in paradise]

And what if he were into Furry fantasies?

Would they let him wear a bear or tiger costume to school every day?

There IS NO “wear the clothing of the opposite sex” gene. We are born naked. Clothing is determined by local custom and cultural norms.