Seven-year-old boy living as a girl

[Cyclone]

How about Jehovah's witnesses and no blood transfusions? That's almost never what's best for the child if a medical professional is saying that they need blood.

[alchresearch]

I was given a tea set as a child, traditionally a "girls toy". But I loved it, and grew up straight. However, I do wonder if its responsible for my large consumption of tea, around 15 cups a day.

[petemcewan]

Cyclone,

 

To whom is the question addressed ?

 

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I was given a tea set as a child, traditionally a "girls toy". But I loved it, and grew up straight. However, I do wonder if its responsible for my large consumption of tea, around 15 cups a day.

 

As we are making confessions. When at junior school in Manchester I chose knitting instead of metalwork. I eventually moved to metalwork.

However, the knitting experience probably accounts for my taste in ill fitting

baggy knitted jumpers. You have to laugh. My god, you were lucky to have a tea set. When I was a nipper I only had a piece of coal to play with. I loved that bit of coal-but my farther made me put it on the fire-cruel,cruel !

Edited October 26, 2016 by petemcewan

[Cyclone]

It was addressed to you.

[pretty_big]

Cyclone,

 

To whom is the question addressed ?

 

---------- Post added 26-10-2016 at 11:24 ----------

 

 

As we are making confessions. When at junior school in Manchester I chose knitting instead of metalwork. I eventually moved to metalwork.

However, the knitting experience probably accounts for my taste in ill fitting

baggy knitted jumpers. You have to laugh. My god, you were lucky to have a tea set. When I was a nipper I only had a piece of coal to play with. I loved that bit of coal-but my farther made me put it on the fire-cruel,cruel !

 

Me and a friend chose cooking at school to be around all the girls and we hated it, young children should not be encouraged to change gender and should be discouraged away from wearing opposite gender clothes or when at a young age, when they get to around 13-16 years old then these choices can become a little more educated.

[Cyclone]

Nobody is talking about encouraging children to do so.

 

Clothes should be gender neutral, as should colours and toys. This idea that there are toys or clothes for girls and toys and clothes for boys is a corrosive one.

[petemcewan]

Cyclone,

 

As I said ,most of the time parents know best. There are occasions-like you point out-when they don't know best, and don't act in the best interest of their child/children.

[pmurtdlanod1]

Nobody is talking about encouraging children to do so.

 

Clothes should be gender neutral, as should colours and toys. This idea that there are toys or clothes for girls and toys and clothes for boys is a corrosive one.

 

why should they be neutral? for whos benefit? why corrosive? serious questions

[Becky B]

Me and a friend chose cooking at school to be around all the girls and we hated it, young children should not be encouraged to change gender and should be discouraged away from wearing opposite gender clothes or when at a young age, when they get to around 13-16 years old then these choices can become a little more educated.

 

Does learning to cook involve changing gender? Why is cooking a 'female' subject?

[pmurtdlanod1]

Does learning to cook involve changing gender? Why is cooking a 'female' subject?

 

of course its not a female subject, although it was back in the day, as we see today 99% of the worlds best chefs are men.