RANT:
I am so sick of hearing people ask worriedly, "Do you think he'll grow up to be gay or trans?" The fact is, that from the 17th to the early 20th Century ALL young boys wore their hair long and dressed in what we today would call "little girls' clothes" (back then they were simply called "baby clothes"), often till they were 6 to 8 years old or even older. And did THEY all turn out "gay or trans"? Of course not!
FUN FACTS:
Partly this was practical -- since snap fasteners (pants with a snap crotch) weren't invented till the late 1880s, kids in diapers wore dresses as a matter of course -- and given the convenience of dresses, it took nearly 40 years before people thought seriously of trousers with a snap crotch. But most kids back then were toilet trained by age 2, so why did parents delay putting boys in trousers? Partly THAT was economic -- it was much cheaper to dress boys and girls alike, especially since infant mortality was so high that only about half of all children born made it to age 6. Partly it was "to preserve their innocence" -- to keep them from worrying about the physical differences between boys and girls (Hello, today's right wing "Protectors of Childhood Innocence" -- Bwaa-haa-haa!).