@ScrollingLeaves This would have been around 2016, so I guess it was just as transactivism was just starting to ramp up. I remember talking to a friend about it a few weeks after and she commented that maybe I should have told him that it might be possible by the time he's an adult for him to grow a baby because of scientific advancement. I remember sort of nodding and smiling along with her, while privately wondering wtf kind of crappy sci-fi she'd been reading to genuinely think such nonsense would be possible anywhere even close to our lifetimes. Most of my mum friends from that time are nearly all full-on TRAs now, including that friend.
Thankfully the principal at DS's school seems to be a very smart, sensible woman so I don't think there has been any real gender ideology at his school. And DS thinks it's all pretty stupid, he knows that he's always like both 'boy' things and 'girl' things without that changing the fact that he is a boy. And he knows that I'm the same and still a woman. So he doesn't understand why anyone would think what they enjoy could change their sex, especially when the biology can never change. When he was 8, I overheard him talking to some kids at a playground who asked if he was a boy or a girl and he said, "I'm a boy, I know that can seem confusing as boys don't usually have long hair, but I just like it long sometimes." And the other kids were fine with that. Though over the next year or so, once schools were back fully after Covid, he started wanting it short most of the time. Which is probably 70/30, faster drying and less brushing/wanting to fit in with the boys. He'll still dress up as female characters at Halloween if that's his favourite video game character at the time. Though will usually go with a big jumper/t-shirt if the character wears a dress.