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[quote=Anonymous]This is how boys who show any inkling of dressing like a stereotypical girl start to get treated in preschool and early elementary.  Immediate backlash and comments from peers and adults.  It's always been this way.  My son who had a lot of these leanings (non gender conforming)...it was fascinating and disturbing how it was just immediately beat out of him in kindergarten by his peers.  He got the memo and I didn't give it to him.  It sucks.  He is now in college so this was way back when.  The climate is way more accepting of girls who may want to dress/act more like a stereotypical boy.

And once you approach the cess pool of middle school, it's just reality.  I don't think this is anything new though.  It just is.  I think adults want to tell themselves it is better and kids maybe went slightly more underground with it?  But it's always been there.

All you can do is message to your own kid be who you are, we love you and support you.  And if you get a kid who is comfortable and confident doing that you have a truly amazing human on your hands.  It's hard to be different.[/quote]

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