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Oct. 24th, 2010 @ 06:49 pm 
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I just watched this video about a "princess boy" - a kid who likes pretty, pretty things and dressing up in dresses.
Whose parents and school are totally supportive and go out of the way to make this okay and make sure he doesn't get bullied. His mother took him to psychologists and suchlike because she was worried that this was the "gender confusion" thing you hear about - and she wanted to make sure he was happy. (I get the impression that if he'd turned out to be trans, she'd be one of those parents who lets their little kid live as a different gender, but this little boy is a boy, he's just a boy who likes to feel pretty.) She even wrote a children's book about it.
His father is also in the interview segment, and says that he wants his son to grow up happy that his parents supported him, whether it's just a phase or truly who he is.
It's pretty cool, I recommend watching it. (The summary is for those who can't.) Although the "Naww" of the subject line is mostly because, on the day they filmed this, the kid had a cold, and when the interviewer tries to talk to him, he is the most adorably pathetic person in the world. He tries, but he's clearly just out of it and it's tragically, tragically cute.
I suspect it says unflattering things about me that I was sort of more surprised/impressed at the father than I was the mother - something in me assumes that a father will have more trouble with a pretty princess-dressing son than a mother will.
But that guy is an awesome, loving dad who wants his son to feel loved and supported by his parents. The kid's older brother also talks about how he wants his little brother to be happy, because then he's happy, and their father gives him a proud shoulder-hug from off-screen.
Those boys are going to grow up to be good men, I think, because they're clearly good kids, and their primary male role model seems pretty rock-solidly awesome. He looks like he's big and manly, but at the same time, he's openly loving and his first priority in fatherhood is for his kids to feel loved and supported in their choices.
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