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[quote=Anonymous]How do I handle this?  We have a lesbian neighbor that we are friendly with.  She will often visit and stop by sometimes with her partner, other times by herself.  My DS recently called her a boy.  He knows her name but argued that "mary" is a boy - not a girl.  This came up because he asked a question about her.  "Mommy, why did that boy drop off the box today?"  I was confused and said, "Mary dropped off the box, she's a girl, not a boy" and he was adament - kept insisting that Mary was a boy.  I asked him why he thought Mary was a boy and he wouldn't tell me, just kept saying "No, Mary's a boy."  I finally just dropped it.

He is almost 5 years old and has speech delays (which is why he couldn't articulate why he thought Mary was a boy).  he's never said that to "mary" directly and it's the first time it's come up - he's known Mary since he was little.

Do I do anything?  Just drop it and let mary deal with it if he ever says it to her? How do I explain, without any boobs vs. penises comparisons, that she's a woman?[/quote]

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