Remember a web story last year concerning a mother who made a big internet fuss about her little five year old boy wanting to dress up as Daphne of the cartoon show Scooby Doo? The little boy loved the show, previous years he had gone as other characters of the show but that year he decided that he wanted to go as Daphne. The mother got him a Daphne costume, then the little boy had second thoughts. The mother insisted that he wear it. When the other mothers saw him dressed as Daphne, they rolled their eyes or made some other sign of their displeasure. The mother was mad at the other mothers then went on the internet with a huge story which had the bold face title “My five year old son is gay”. Then she put a picture of her son in the Daphne costume. She then told the whole story and admitted that her five year old is probably not gay but she would love him just as much if he were.
She took a small private incident and then blew it up into a national phenomenon, she even appeared on television. I think this mother has some issues and has made her little boy the brunt of unwanted national attention that will live with him for years. All this because she wanted her liberal bon fides.
>>It’s like she was saying “I want you to be a girl.”<<
This woman told me, when she was pregnant with her second son and I was pregnant with my second daughter, “You can make a girl into a boy, but not a boy into a girl.”
I really feel she tried.
Me? I want my kids to be themselves.