Boy raised as 'gender neutral' by parents let him wear dresses

[transboy]

Max is being brought up as 'gender neutral', meaning as well as dressing up in boy's clothes and playing with trucks, planes and dinosaurs, he also wears DRESSES, paints his nails and plays with prams.

[transboy]

Lisa and her husband, Martin, 34, encourage him to wear both boys’ and girls’ clothes, and to play with conventionally female – as well as male – toys. If Max wants to wear a pink tutu and fairy wings, then he can wear it,’ says Lisa. ‘He’s just expressing himself. I don’t want to put him in a certain box and treat him that way.

[Betty]

The kid is just a toddler & has no idea what gender even is. I'm sure when he gets a little older & understands what a boy & girl are, he'll form his own opinion about this... or sue his parents for putting his face on international news about it.

There will always be a few women & girls who seem to be all too overjoyed to put their son, nephew, grandson, or little brother in makeup or a dress. But is it proper behavior for a mother, aunt, grandparent, or older sister to turn a boy into their dress-up plaything & doll?

He has no sisters at home & is a pre-schooler. She had to take him through the girl's department of a store, introduce him to girls stuff, & buy that stuff for him. She's not raising a gender neutral boy, she's feminizing him.

Here's the article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559748/If-Max-wants-wear-pink-tutu-fairy-wings-Parents-raise-son-boy-AND-girl-wont-grow-aggressive.html

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/366013/Boy-raised-as-gender-neutral-by-parents-who-let-him-wear-DRESSES-and-paint-his-nails

[transboy]

Yeah, I kind of wondered if the publicity was more for the parents. If gender identity is established prenatal, then the social environment and conditioning (dressing as a girl) would not change his gender identity. But there has been research that social conditioning can influence gender identity. I don’t know if raising him “gender neutral” is good or bad.

[Betty]

At that young & influential age she shouldn't be screwing with the kids head by using him as her own living dressup doll. He'll have plenty of time later in life to wear a tutu, fairy wings, & tights when he really wants to. At that young an age, he probably cares about as much about tutus as he does for the Horizons space probe on it's way to Pluto.

I probably wound up the way I did by witnessing boys being punished by putting them in little girl dresses, bonnets, & diapers in kindergarten. They sent all the boys from all the classes in the school down to the kindergarten class to be punished that way by the kindergarten teacher... I guess she was famous in the school for it.

I think the faculty liked petticoat & diaper punishment a little too much, or just like the mother in the article, a few women just like using kids as their dressup dolls, so looked for excuses to punish them that way.

I don't remember them putting girls, or older girls in baby girl clothes & diapers there. They only did it to the boys.

I remember even when I was older, passing the kindergarten class & occasionally seeing a boy standing high on a table on display in front of the class dressed like a frilly diapered little girl with a ruffled bonnet, rattle, & pacifier (dummy). She always set them up in front near the door so everybody passing in the hall can clearly see them too.