OP sounds out of touch. Soooo many kids dye their hair these days; it's not confined to trans kids at all. My 1st grader's friend had a streak of purple in her hair last year and she's not trans; NBD.

I thought hair dye is not good for your health.

The reason is because many of today's parents are deathly afraid to parent their kids. Letting children dye their hair is moronic. Some say they need to "express themselves". The truth is that children are naturally always expressing themselves. The parent's job is to teach and train children on when and how to properly express themselves in a constructive manner.

People use tattoos, loud hair dye, piercings, etc. as a crutch to make them somehow stand out and apart from a humdrum generic crowd. This is because they either are not naturally pretty or handsome enough or self assured to rely on their God given and parent groomed traits to impress and persuade others.

Rainbow hair color is the trend right now. Even adults I know with real jobs have funky colors. A 65 year old grandmother I know, has purple hair. It's fun, it's harmless, it grows out fast (unless you use Kool-aid...don't do that)

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Anonymous wrote:The real question is why don’t more straight kids dye their hair those colors?

They do.

and they all look stupid, but not as ridiculous as the adults who do this. I am so over this trend.

You get to have your own opinion, of course. But I don't think they're very concerned about it.

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Anonymous wrote:The real question is why don’t more straight kids dye their hair those colors?

They do.

and they all look stupid, but not as ridiculous as the adults who do this. I am so over this trend.

Anonymous wrote:The real question is why don’t more straight kids dye their hair those colors?

They do.

The real question is why don’t more straight kids dye their hair those colors?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid has had blue bangs since age 8. He’s now 11.

It is not unusual at his school or our temple or our neighborhood. I’d venture to say it has not been unusual since, oh, 1982.

They’re kids. They’re enjoying color and creativity and having fun. Don’t make it any more than that.

I was in HS in the 80's and this was not at all common.

So was I and many of us had part of our head shaved.

It’s a trend much like aqua net and eyeliner in the 80s, which boys and girls wore.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid has had blue bangs since age 8. He’s now 11.

It is not unusual at his school or our temple or our neighborhood. I’d venture to say it has not been unusual since, oh, 1982.

They’re kids. They’re enjoying color and creativity and having fun. Don’t make it any more than that.

I was in HS in the 80's and this was not at all common.

High school in the late 80s, and there were only a few of us in my school of about 1,000.

Anonymous wrote:My kid has had blue bangs since age 8. He’s now 11.

It is not unusual at his school or our temple or our neighborhood. I’d venture to say it has not been unusual since, oh, 1982.

They’re kids. They’re enjoying color and creativity and having fun. Don’t make it any more than that.

I was in HS in the 80's and this was not at all common.

#PublicSchoolProblems

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Anonymous wrote:It's so interesting to me how attitudes about these things change. In middle/high school, I was the only kid dyeing my hair crazy colors and it was a form of rebellion. My parents flipped out over it, my friends' parents hated me because I was a "bad influence", all the popular kids in school made fun of me. Curious how kids rebel nowadays.

I remember this too - I was considered weird. Now its actually normal. What do the actual non-conformist kids do these days?

Probably don't dye!

Anonymous wrote:Do the schools let the kids go to class w/ dyed purple, pink, blue hair???

Confused. . .

Probably only private schools can legally forbid a kid. In public kids can do what they want with their hair ( as it should be) My kid has gone to both types of schools.