Should I let my son wear pink?

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Quick question for you all, please help if you can!
My son is 7. Totally regular, bog-standard boy, broadly gender-conforming.
His favourite colour is bright pink. I don't care, and I like him choosing his own clothes and expressing himself. He's bright and confident.
Worried he'll get bullied, though. Do I buy the bright pink clothing (trainers and t-shirts) or try to steer him gently towards other colours he likes and avoid the 'controversy'? Wwyd?
Thanks.

Pink is on trend go and have a look in men’s section at jd and foot locker also a lot of pale pastels

Children should wear practical, comfortable clothes in any colour they like. Let them choose. Life's hard enough without fussing about pink.

In the sixties and seventies, men wore pink all the time. My dad had some beautiful pink shirts.

Loads of professional footballers wear pink boots.

No they're not a bit interested in my POV!

I've been around here long enough to know that people just want to jump on me and get into a row about it 😂

I'm not up for that so, good luck OP!

Ffs come on op, it's stupid gender tropes like this that are contributing to the hoards of trans kids who think they're the wrong sex because they don't like the right things 🙄

My son wears pink, he's 12. Never even crossed my mind that it could be an issue. George at Asda have got some fab pink shorts and hoodies at the moment in the boys section. It's just a colour 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why on earth not?

My brother - heterosexual, blokey bloke in his 40s bloody loves a pink shirt. And my sister and I had to pay a fortune a few years ago to replace his very worn out neon pink HK 7s top for his birthday.

I have other male friends who also love a pink shirt.

Why??

All the men and boys in my extended family that I can think of have got pink in their wardrobes. It's a completely standard colour now.

But why would you even care?!

Definitely buy him the pink! My DS is 7, loves any bright colours. If kids are going to be nasty they'll find anything so he might as well be wearing what he wants!

Buy the pink! I dressed Ds I’m lots of bright colours when he was little, looked cute and easy to spot him. At primary it was be whoever and whatever you want, individuality embraced. Then came year 7 at an academy where they need to be immaculate but identical, the theme then is to look like every other boy, be invisible or get bullied.

why not, baby pink, dusty pink or salmon pink looks great on boys, my son has always had pink tshirts since he was a baby, he is 10 now, still has at least 3 differet pink tshirts, but I wont buy hot pink for him.

Colours are for everyone. My son had "boys" shorts on today that were white blue and pink.

I hate this stupid colours for boys and colours for girls. thing. When DD was 12 months she had a blue and white Babygro, and looked just like a little milk jug. A woman in a supermarket said 'What's his name?' and when I explained said 'You can't put blue on a girl!'. I said 'Nonsense'. It hasn't turned her 'genderqueer' which my kids assure me is a word these days.

Definitely buy them, I see so many adult males wearing pink and pastel tones now. It's great that he feels confident enough with you to express his opinions about it.

Pink for boys is in this season. Go for it, he'll have a fair bit to choose from.

Ds loves pink it’s really no big deal these days

And dd loves light blue

I’d be honest and make sure he knows some people stupidly think ‘pink is for girls’. It’s a good age to have a chat about silly stereotypes anyway.

As long as he’s aware so that he will not be upset by any comments that others might make, let him wear what he likes.

The sooner these stereotypes are broken, the sooner this gender/trans bollocks will go away. 🤞

Yes, you should let him wear pink. Parenting is supporting your kids to be themselves and equipping them with resilience to ignore what idiots might think.

"Pink is for everyone!"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hqpq/colourblocks-series-1-21-pink

Half the high school leavers in my son's yr chose pink hoodies as their colour, so what if he likes pink just let him wear it

I think the issues behind blokes thinking they're women run a lot deeper than you're making out tbh.

Wearing pink won't make you a trans woman.

Just like me wearing blue doesn't make me want to be a trans man.

Tbh none of my dc have had negative comments over a colour top they’ve worn

Of course you can buy pink.

Baffled that you would question this.

When looking at clothes for my niece as a baby, all the girl stuff was so pretty and bright. The boys clothes were blues and greys, not nearly as cute.