Yeah. They looked more convincing. In many previous specials on the topic too many of the kids seem just confused, or just liked cute stuff, to play dress-up, or seemed to have been coached by mom or a sister to be a girl.
Just because one likes cuter, soft stuff, or likes to play dress-up doesn't mean they're trapped in the wrong body & should get meds to delay puberty.
We've seen other kids on TV, the web, & youtube that wanted to be a girl over the years. Most of them that didn't get "treatment" or meds, after they hit puberty their feelings, entire attitude, & outlook on life changed dramatically. We see them on youtube a few years later, & they are quite happy being a boy, doing makeup, & hair, while dating girls or other boys, or grew out of girly things entirely.
Just because a male isn't macho, doesn't like other boys, & likes prettier things doesn't necessarily mean they're a girl trapped inside a boys body. Without interfering with his development & growing up, he may be the next great artist, musician, writer, or scientist (the best ones aren't very macho either).
Until after he hits puberty, he will not know or understand that he might be just a fem boy, sissy, TV, or gay, or simply not macho. The majority of these kids if allowed to grow normally, after a couple years of puberty, are quite happy being a boy even if they still like to be pretty.
Before puberty, they think they're a girl & want to be one because that's the only thing they understand to interpret their feelings. And no matter how school, books, & the doctors explain post-puberty, they will have absolutely no idea until they actually go through it. I don't know what they're teaching kids these days, but you don't start growing hair all over, lose your high voice, & your penis doesn't get real big right away. It takes many years after puberty starts for all that stuff to gradually happen. Most men go through most of high school not having to shave (with a few exceptions).
Plus, for many grown ups, parents, & siblings, it's sometimes easier to think the non-macho boy in the house is really a girl inside with a "treatable condition" rather than admit he might be fem, a sissy, TV, or gay. And there will always be plenty of doctors, therapists, or hospitals willing to make lots of money off of them rather than tell them their kid is a perfectly healthy sissy boy or TV.
Lets not forget there may also be women or girls in the house who don't really enjoy having a macho, loud, & boisterous boy in the house, so will encourage & reward him for showing a delicate, feminine, quiet more peaceful, cuddly side. A few years of that & the boy thinks he's a girl or wants to be one. Esp. when he gets out of the house & finds out the other boys in school & the neighborhood don't like the sissy boy that they turned him into.
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