Isn't this lovely!

[JellySaurus]

This is what gender non-conforming can look like. This is extending the boundaries of what it means to be male.

Why shouldn't a boy wear a dress if it makes him happy?

Please remain yourself, Korben: a gay bloke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-62041127

How very disappointing.

Yeah I got to the part where they talked about his drag persona, 'Miss Frou Frou', and thought this is a very well done publicity stunt.

This isn't about boys being able to dress however they want. This is about drag

didnt read…just saw picture 😔

I thought he looked amazing, the strong colours really suit him. I loved the picture of him in the sparkle jacket, with his mum. First impression was, ‘shame it has to make news, but glad he has received acceptance for being him.’ Then I read the bit about drag and thought, ‘shame he thinks it’s ok to appropriate women’. What the hell is wrong with just being a boy in a dress?

It's launching a drag career. Canny.

It’s all so bloody depressing, all of it. Sigh.

I went to year 11 prom in a suit in 2001, with short spiky hair. Even back then no one gave a fuck. They were more shocked when I went in a red prom dress and even shorter hair in year 13. Think they’d got used to only seeing me in trousers by then 😁 No one lined up to cheer on either occasion though, I feel hard done by…

Seriously though, I actually find something about that really disquieting. All the performance cheering. I always thought lgbt progress would be when it was just a non-event.

Didn't think of that.

He looks amazing. Better than I look in a dress. I'm glad he felt comfortable to go in the outfit he wanted.

But other than that he's just done the same as Jamie (as in, everybody's talking about) did 15 years ago. Or whenever it was.

The big news isn't "boy wears dress", it's "boy wears dress and this doesn't make him a girl".

FWIW I don't think it takes so much courage for a boy to wear a dress these days, but it does take courage to stand against the prevailing trans tide. I thought it was particularly powerful that he chose to leave his drag persona behind and come as his true self. Which is a boy.

Meh.

I'm not expending energy lauding a male.

I think that even apart from the drag element, it's to the point that he is looking to be in the media.

There is a reason that so often the people we see pushing the envelope around presentations are people like rock stars. It's because they have an interest in making waves, being remembered, doing something different.

In general it's not because they have some deep inner need to wear a dress or have big hair. It's an image. And it will often set of a trend that others follow, and maybe it's not so edgy any more after that.

When private individuals push boundaries there can often be a lot more ambiguity for people to wonder why they are doing that. Maybe the individual has a deep need to have big hair, but people I suspect tend to be skeptical about that. Maybe he is also pushing the envelope in the same way a David Bowie is, some people are like that. But there can also be less innocent reasons to push at boundaries and that's always the concern I think.

This kid seems like the celebrity type. Which is fine, but I don't think it's really laudable.

FWIW I don't think it takes so much courage for a boy to wear a dress these days, but it does take courage to stand against the prevailing trans tide. I thought it was particularly powerful that he chose to leave his drag persona behind and come as his true self. Which is a boy.

This.

We're in the sex and gender topic. I think it's important to make it clear gender critical people are delighted to see both male and female people challenging gender stereotypes.

The problem with that is that virtually all men have an ulterior motive for doing so.