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[quote=Anonymous]If you think you are going to hide this information from your child in this day and age, you are not going to succeed. Your kid will go to school with gender non-gender conforming kids whether your kid goes to public or private school. It really does not matter much if the school includes the topic in the official curriculum, your child will find out about this cultural shift sooner than you imagine. If you think finding out about gender identity will make your child doubt their gender identity, then you should ask yourself: did finding out about gay people make you doubt your own sexuality? If the answer is yes, you may have found the root of your unease (and it’s not about your kid at all). If you think people grown up secure in their gender identity only because no other possibility is tolerated or acknowledged, that’s a pretty bleak and impoverished view of what you hope for for your child. We talked about gender fluidity and gender binary from a very young age and read books about it etc. we made a point to talk about gendered expectations and to model defying gender roles. Our child is now an adolescent and emphatically confident in their (assigned at birth, consistent with birth certificate) gender. Honestly, the kids most likely to be drawn to gender “rebellion” for its own sake  (to the extent that ever happens outside of the context of genuine gender fluidity and dysphoria, which is probably never) are likely to be kids whose parents were regressive and tried to eliminate the option and hide the information from them. That fearful and mega-controlling-of-information approach tends to backfire, whatever the context. [/quote]

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