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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a Gay mom with a very gender neutral daughter and she has what may be a transgender friend. He is biologically a boy and calls himself a boy but likes girls clothing and and more feminine activities.  Having said that,[b] unless your 3yo son has a specific transgender person in his life I think he is too young to understand this concept. I would have left it as he understood it. [/b][/quote]

This exactly.  
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Nope. Three is exactly the right age to start understanding this concept. [b]Three is when gender identity is forming. [/b]
Being a "gay mom" doesn't make you an expert on gender, you know this right?[/quote]

This is exactly why you shouldn't introduce the concept at 3; their gender identities haven't formed yet. They are not fully set in most kids until 5, sometimes 8. Kids don't need parental interventions to develop their gender identities...unless you're saying that you can shape your kid's gender identity before it's fully developed, which sounds like what you mean. [/quote]

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