Wrong on so many levels

Thing is, kids like dressing up. It's a natural exploration of gender roles. I did it myself as a child and I remember it well. Danger is when it gets hijacked by media agendas or parents who want to make money out of it. Children are so impressionable.

 

I’m not a gambling man (because that would be insensitive to assume my own gender), but I’m willing to wager you’ve spent some time in California...

 

I'm sure he'll turn out fine. I don't know what will happen when he realizes that the GMA appearance actually was the height of his fame, though. I can just picture him in his bedroom singing Celine Dion songs and dreaming of being a diva someday. lol

I do know that if I was a parent, I would never let my kid go around dressing like an adult, wearing makeup and what not. It's not a matter of him expressing his gender or whatever. It's a matter of the fact that people are out there sexualizing that shit, and it puts your child in danger of exploitation. It's just not safe to let your kids do that. Even if you watch them 24/7. It's not safe to inspire other kids to do that whose parents won't watch them. In short, it's not safe. But maybe the kids like to live dangerously. It's all about what kids like to do, in the end, right?

 

Only visiting... I just don't think trans kids are the end of the world.

 

Oh yeah. If child pageants are your objection I don't disagree. I find them pretty creepy.

 

I think having supporting parents is great, not having to hide the age when a child feels comfortable doing that stuff is great.. go back in time, those kids are now killing themselves, or harming themselves.. but perhaps the parents are opening that world a bit too soon.. but I would love to see him in the future..

 

I think teaching kids about inclusiveness is super important, and exploring who they are, is part of that. His ability to not care what others think of him, is what is cool about this story, imo. So many people are obsessed with others' opinions of them, they are never really themselves. But, there's also something about this story, that makes me feel like his parents are being a bit reckless and exploitative. Just a feeling I get.

I also feel that way however, about parents who push their daughters to do those child ''beauty pageants.'' That's creepy to me. I'm not a fan of parents who try to live vicariously through their kids, whether that is about forcing their kids to go to a college of the parent's choice, or doing sports when the kid doesn't wish to, etc. This story just feels like another form of that, to me. (not that the parents wish to get into drag) But, I sense a bit of the parents wanting to gain some attention and pride, from all of this.

 

All Is Well.....Until.....He Turns 13 And His Voice Drops 2 Octaves.....LOL....



Cheers Glen.

 

I couldn't make it through much of the video either. My feeling is that 11 is simply too young to start dressing that way, especially all the make-up. Pedos everywhere see that and start salivating I imagine. I think my niece was 14 before she was allowed to start experimenting with make-up and even then it was, let's see...'age appropriate' I guess you'd say. She's 16 today and there is no way she'd be allowed to leave the house dressed like the 11 year old in the video.

I've turned into my parents it would seem.

 

Lolz, I wasnt into drag at 11, and never was.
But I was a hyper attention seeker.

Adults think they can control that shit, I just lolz.

Some 11 yr olds are way ahead of the game when it comes to everyone else.

Think thats part of the snotty reaction from some.

If it was an 11 yr old chess champion instead with a little bow tie, youd get a snotty reaction from mosr guys as well - little smartarse already has his career planned out going to get reasonably wealrhy

Lolz at this too.

By 11, my dad was way overprotective of anything male getting near me. Totaaly the wrong sex he should have been worried about.

You want to know the truth about the world, you need to see what happens when a little dude like that is around a dozen girls a little bit older. Say a dozen 13 yr old girls, and no adults are around or watching

 

Assuming that this behavior is parent-encouraged (which I suspect it may not be)--I would agree with another poster that this is no worse than those parents who enter their children into pageants. It's strange and uncomfortable, but parents exploiting their children for money is hardly a new phenomenon.

And if the kid just wants to dress in drag, then fine. Whatever. I am sure he will fare better in a world where folks don't care that he wants to be a drag queen, then in a world where people point to him as the reason that society is begging to decay.

Either way, it seems like the boy enjoys attention (a natural showman, if nothing else), and he has found an effective way to get it. Big shrug.

 

alt gender pageants are not really a thing. one thing to present your girl child as a girl and a boy child ... its beyond Halloween/Hollywood and a complex issue that many trans-persons rather not discuss.. One thing to be playing with grandmas stocking and funny hats.. Its another to try and modernize it, as if ifs a normal thing to place your CHILD in the spotlight in an ADULT industry on national television..

 

Interesting to note that in Shakespeare's time, and definitely in performances of his plays at that time, female characters were played by young boys whose voices had not yet broken.

 

Shakespear bit of a dirty perv.

 

He was a fine man. Bald but sexy!

 

ah well, whatever floats your boat.

 

My interest is purely anthropological.

 

Your face is anthropological.

 

I see no further progression in this conversation.

 

really? the progression is pretty obvious: your mom is anthropological.