5 year old saying he's a girl?

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How best to deal with this, it is happening at home at school and started roughly 4 months ago, maybe a bit longer and at first everyone school included was treating it as a normal phase, to correct and ignore but although it's occasionally luled he's still insistent he's a girl.

What is the next step here?

Thought I'd update this.

I'm pretty sure he's accepted that he's a pretty, beautiful and caring boy. It's been several months since he has mentioned being a girl. He still wears whatever clothes he wants. Loves pink, because it's strawberry milkshake coloured. Sadly I think this is what set it off, someone at school probably told him if he liked pink he's a girl 🙄.

Most children go through these stages, it's the reactions and words of others that impacts how the child responds. Remember each child your child interacts with in school, conditions your child to some degree. By default, how they are parented and what they are exposed to, will directly influence their child, and yours by default. Not sure that made sense? We create confusion in children by making a big thing out of normal inquistive, experimental, play. We need to just let children be children again, and not label everything. I fear we have created so many future problems for so many young people.

It's lasted almost 2 years. I have to say it was worrying.

Good to hear your update OP, thanks for sharing. I’m glad your son is accepting of being the boy that he is. Well done you for letting him wear what he wants.

If society, including schools, were doing a better job of breaking down stereotypes then we’d be in a better place.

We certainly would, it's still a bit of a mystery where it originated from but he seems to be going in the right direction.

Wonderful to hear this update!