To dress my son in girls clothes

[SleepingStandingUp]

By which I mean things like leggings and tops that have shimmer and shine, mlp, the girls off paw patrol etc rather than dresses.

Ds is 2, loves pink and glittery and ask the above characters but people act like its child abuse.

Presumably no one would care if s 3yo DD wanted to wear Thomas the Tank Engine

proper clothes

I don't know what those are.

My husband has a pink Tshirt. It's from the men's collection in Diesel and I find it quite fetching.

I think this is more about you right on lefty virtue signaling than the boy wanting girls clothes.
If you normalize this at this age, come school, he will be encouraged to say he is a girl, and transition.

Please dont encourage it, or plant those seeds, you are risking a lot of pain for him if you do.

Once he is older and knows his own mind, and he still wants girls clothes, it's down to him.

It should be fine, but its the fault of this twisted world pushing the trans agenda that it isnt.

In rl, barely anyone would do this. You and your son will look weird and most people will judge the fuck out of you.

In my experience, a school aged boy in a dress will attract attention but nobody will care before that age as they'll know that Dora the Explorer is only available in the girls section and Buzz Lightyear in the boys. In fact I'd say it was the norm for children to own something from the opposite sex /unisex section because there will be boys who prefer the fit of girls leggings and girls who will want the snugness and thickness of boys pants etc

We did leggings a lot at 2. I found t-shirts more difficult because a lot of the character ones with "girl" characters were also scoop necked or with frilly sleeves etc, which made them more similar to a dress in my mind in terms of clothing intended to deliberately advertise "I am a girl" rather than just patterned clothing which anyone could wear (we had pink unisex-cut tops and fairy wings to be a boy fairy etc). As a result, we tended to buy character books instead.

I don't think i would dress a two year old (girl or boy) in too much glitter/shimmer/shine regularly unless they demanded it. Cotton laundry is so much easier! But if he asks the YANBU.

i think just prefer buy mlp, paw patrol etc toys for him to play with

@joestrummersbullshitdetector.

What a load of shite 😂

My 11 year olds favourite colour is and always has been pink, he used to choose Peppa and Dora clothes. He naturally gravitated away from them as he got older and started to accept stereotypes as "the norm".

No one is forcing anything on anyone, being a true trans isn't a choice anymore than being gay. Get over yourself ffs

If he was preschool/reception age I might be a bit wary in case of teasing but at 2 I think it’s absolutly fine, all they see at that age is ‘Peppa’ or ‘oooh shiny’ surely.

I buy DS girls jeggings instead of jeans with buttons etc because they look much comfier.

Of course YANBU. If that's what he wants to wear then get him what he likes.

My youngest DS is 19 months and wears some clothes that are from the girls section of shops. That's because they were ones that I liked, at the right price and he doesn't know or care what he wears. You can tell that they are so called "girls" clothes because they have little extra details like tiny gathers at the shoulder/a detail on the back of the neck, and they have pictures of supposedly "girls" things on them. They are just tops, in various colours, yellow, black and white spots, etc. He occasionally gets referred to as a girl, and I don't bother to correct people unless it's relevant. I don't bother to correct them because it doesn't matter, it isn't an insult or a problem to refer to him mistakenly as a girl.

If anyone wants to judge me as a result and consider me weird, that's fine, I would consider it a lucky escape that you wouldn't want to befriend me!

fingerscrossedhard well i think maybe you are behind the times or live in an odd area or something because my son genuinely does wear girls clothing outside and no one has ever made a nasty comment. Also I regularly see other of his male toddler friends wearing sequins and glittery clothing.

Theyre gray but with obvious unicorns, ponies, rainbows. Currently paired with robot socks and Thomas tank boots.

I did say to DH I'd leave them for home days as everyone says girl as it is due to his longer hair beauty.

The only shimmer and shine he likes is the characters, the girl genies

My 6 year old son (middle one) loves Pinkie Pie. Has a very pink Pinkie Pie tracksuit. He doesn't give a toss what anyone else thinks. He is the king of winding people up but its impossible to wind him up. Not one person has commented nor any child has said anything to him. He has ASC so maybe others pick up on that and leave him alone. He also loves Fireman Sam, Electrical fans and Lego.

Can someone explain how I virtue sign via Primark shopping??

@SleepingStandingUp can your DH explain what his issue is with people occasionally referring to your DS as a girl?

My 4 year old ds is obsessed with Skye from paw patrol and rainbow dash. He has a wardrobe full of sweatshirts, tshirts and pjs with those characters and literally every skye or rainbow dash toy or teddy ever made lol. He obsession has lasted over 2 year. I have zero worries over it and dare anyone to have a problem with it. My dh has no problem with it, he is actually an enabler in the obsession and had a very beloved doll at the same age. My ds is well able to stand up to for himself. A man in the shop last week told my son who was holding his rainbow dash toy would he not like a boys toy, my ds told him rainbow dash was a boy so a boys toy, the man agreed with him

My middle dd who is 8 would much rather be a "boy" than a girl. She only shops in the boys section of clothing stores and loves all things ninjago, super heros and starwars. Of course is "cute" with her supposedly. Let them wear whatever they want, at that age they know no different and thats the way it should stay. If someone has a problem then they need to look in the mirror.

YerAuntFanny if your kid was dressing in girls clothes nowadays, you would currently have a 'daughter'.

In an ideal world kids could dress in anything and no one would push or lead them into becoming trans.

Dressing the kid in boys clothes won't stop him being gay or trans when he is older if thats what he is going to be. It will help help stop the trans mafia getting their talons into him before he has had a chance to grow up enough to work it out himself.

JoeStrummersBullshitDetector sorry but I think you’re a bit confused as trans is a bit more complex than just wearing the other “gender’s clothes”. You might want to be a bit more informed. There was a wonderful documentary on CBBC on a trans child a few years ago. You should watch it to actually understand.

You really are batshit crazy

*AssassinatedBeauty no I worded out badly. I jokingly said to DH that I would dress him in them at home as I have plenty of people already assuming he is a girl. Then I use his boy name and they get confused and look awkward. I asked DH if he cared what I'd brought and he said (as I knew he would) that he didn't. Just like he didn't have an issie with his parents buying DS a pram for his toys Christmas

I just find it so strange that even at such a young age, so many children on here simply must have the clothes of characters they like. I never remember this being an issue or a thing at all and DD is only 6!

Of course that’s fine. My 4 year old son often wears leggings from the girls section

He is 2, let him wear what he wants.

I don't see being trans as having much at all to do with what colour you like and what style of clothing. It's all trends and lots of choice because of increased disposable income/credit, nothing to do with our brains. And it annoys me when teens/tweens think they can't actually be female because they prefer jeans to mini skirts.

It's got nothing to do with transactivism, it's about being gender critical and recognising that gender is a social construct that we don't have to adhere to. Challenging sex-based stereotypes is good for everyone, recognising that the clothes you wear are just clothes and don't signify anything about your sex.

YerAuntFanny me??