8y old girl we gym in bra top and leggings

A tee shirt certainly allows freedom of movement, and a sports tee is made of that same wicking fabric. As the pp said, boys wear normal trees without issue.

I know that people can be targeted regardless of what they wear. I didn't say otherwise. Why should I give a creep the satisfaction of seeing more than they have too?

As other posters have pointed out it can cause very young kids to feel conscious of their belly's/other body parts at an age where they shouldn't have to worry about that. I'm talking about other kids who don't have the "ideal figure" to wear those clothes and not feel self conscious.

Good on her for doing some exercise. Shame on you for judging her outfit.

I find that style of dressing a child a bit weird too, it's kind of precocious.

I also don't like it when young boys are encouraged to wear trendy clothes and have the latest haircut complete with hair product etc.

Please, just let kids be kids ....

Surely if you don't have boobs a crop top /bra top is going to keep riding up and just be uncomfortable anyway?

At the risk of sounding my age, when I was that age we wore t-shirts for sports, much more comfortable and loose wicking t-shirts you get these days would be even more comfortable.

I do think these fashions that are revealing and trendy for girls are priming them to (a few short years later) wear early teenage fashions that are revealing and lead them into sexualised fashion choices at a younger age than necessary.

sportswear is designed to wick sweat away and allow freedom of movement and keep te wearer cool ad comfortable which is why leggings and t shirt are unsuitable

Something like this?

Also agree that boys aren’t treated the same, Dd does various activities, at none of them are any boys wearing cycling shorts, crop tops or tight anything. Which leads me to think their parents priority is wearing clothes that suit their activity,

Womens clothing is often ridiculous, the shorts are shorter, tops tighter. I think the discomfort I feel is also about how when kids are little they focus on the clothes rather than how they make them look, DD likes wearing her frozen dress, some of the kids gym stuff is shifting the focus from enjoying the clothes to the appearance of the body underneath them iyswim.

No doubt when she’s older she’ll try out different things but for now she’s a kid, not a mini adult.

What do you mean by bra top @KarlWrenbury ? All I can think of is cropped vest top type thing. That's all I see people in at my gym. I've never seen anyone in a bra looking top. I wish my gym would let kids in, they have to be 13. I would love for it to be normalised from a young age and part of our routine.

Kind of agree with OP although it shouldn’t be this way.

It’s not the clothes that are an issue it’s the creeps you need to protect your child from.

My sister gym unfortunately had one of these creeps, who took multiple photos of her and others including teens and posted them online

So when I see tight leggings and little crop tops designed for children at gym I always feel wary

Its sad because children should be able to wear whatever they want but there are creeps out there

When I was 8 - this would have been late 60s/early 70s - I had a two piece bathing costume. The bottoms had a frill on them and the top was what would be described today as a crop top. I can’t see anything wrong with that. But children in skimpy mini adult bikinis with bra shaped tops yes that could be a problem.

I agree OP. It's not that there's anything wrong with seeing an eight year olds body, it's the dressing a young child in adult-style clothing which isn't appropriate. What's wrong with normal shorts/leggings and a T shirt for that age?

It sounds no worse than a bikini at the pool or beach? It sounds like your saying an 8 year olds chest had sexual connotations. It's the same as a boys chest at that age so some kids of 8 don't even wear a top! She was clothed. It was clearly a kids sized 'bra' top, so not a bra if there's nothing to fill it with?

She was wearing gym clothes, at a gym.

I am surprised the gym has insurance for an 8 year old.clothing is fine for a gym

What does a little child do in the gym?
They can't use the machines or weights.
It's definitely weird. Most gyms are restricted to 14 or 16+ for a reason.

Not weird at all. My gym has family memberships, which include little children.

Also, not the issue!

@PurplePolkaDot0 I apologise.

You did say unnecessary, well given the multiple billion fashion industries I would argue that necessary isn't the issue as bows are unnecessary, glitter party shoes, footie shirts for children etc are unnecessary but the children choose to wear them.

I didn’t say inappropriate, I said unnecessary.

@PurplePolkaDot0 a two piece suit is a lot more convenient for sizing and toileting. And again what a child wears is not an invitation nor inappropriate. The inappropriateness is on the part of the abuser.

I'm not blaming CLOTHES, I'm blaming PARENTS ffs. And that's fabulous for you, but it's not true for the majority in regards to a naked woman.

Yes, fantasy revolves around school uniform and babygro fetishism, and the men who enjoy those things probably enjoy the real thing, because they're wrong in the head.

Again, just taking what I wrote however you'd like to make me look like the unreasonable one. I'm saying a PARENT who puts their child in revealing clothes is offering the image of their CHILD in that outfit up to any pedo in the area. The child is not asking for it at all and nor can they ever, they are a child. A child in a bathing outfit at the beach is very different to a child dressed by irresponsible parents to show skin in an every day setting like the gym or the street, however I'd still never allow my child on a public beach in a bathing suit without wearing shorts over the top of it.

You're making me out to be excusing predators, however you seem very naive to things going on around you. I'd never excuse predators, however I can not do anything to remove them from the world, or know who is a possible predator, therefore I will take steps to make sure my child is less at risk of being ogled by them. I as an adult woman would love the freedom to walk around city centres at night alone - I don't have that, because I don't live in a utopia. I take steps to keep myself safe, as I do for my children.

I agree, it’s just so unnecessary for a child to wear a crop top at the gym like that. I feel the same way about children in bikinis.

@flashspeed stop blaming clothes for paedophiles. I know this is shocking but me seeing a naked woman does nothing for me as does a child.

And given the ridiculous amount of so called "fantasy" revolves around school uniform and babygro fetishism I would suggest your point is moot .

Your comment "offering it up" is actually sick. So a child in a bathing outfit is "asking for it"? 😭