German father joins in with his cross-dressing child

[Padma]

http://www.emma.de/ressorts/artikel/kinder-jugendliche/vater-im-rock/

This sweet article (in German - use the translation service of your choice) is about a south German family whose 5 year old son likes to wear girls' clothes sometimes - so his dad has started joining in to make him more comfortable.

Roughly:

Because his son like to wears skirts, Nils Pickert has begun to as well. In the end, the young need a role model. And long skirts with elastic are pretty good, he finds. A story about two role-breakers in the southern province.

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Dad the Rock


Sometimes fathers just have to be role models!


Emma Online 08/20/2012 | Retrieved from the Internet on August 28, 2012 by SJ


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Today Rocktag! Father and son go in the pedestrian zone of a small southern German town.


Because his son like wearing skirts, Nils Pickert himself has also begun. Finally, the boy needs a role model. And stand for long skirts with elastic him quite well anyway, he says. A story about two roll crusher in the southern province.

My five year old boy likes to wear dresses. Berlin Kreuzberg sufficed to get to know other parents this week. Is that sensible or silly? "Neither," I want to say to them still. But they can no longer hear me. For now I live in a small town in southern Germany. No hundred thousand inhabitants, very traditional, very religious. Mom just country. Here are the preferences of my son are not only issue for parents, they are talk of the town. And I've done my part.

Yes, I am one of those fathers who are trying their children, to educate equally. I'm not one of those academics Papis, the drivel in the study of gender justice and then as soon as a child is born, but fall back into the soft and cuddly stereotype gender roles: He realized professionally, she takes care of the rest

I am so, this is me now also clear part of a minority that makes the occasional monkey. Conviction.

[socrates101]

What a wonderful and kind story.
It is people like this that give me faith for humanity still. A role model of what all of humankind should be.

[Shana A]

Fri Aug 31, 2012 at 04:00 PM PDT
A father joins his child
by rserven

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126457/-A-father-joins-his-child

Here's a great story.  Before I delve into it, I'd like to point out that there is some controversy over it.  At base it is about a boy who likes to wear skirts and the actions of the boy's father.  Now, the story is in German at the feminist magazine EMMA.  oneandonlygabriel has provided a rough translation.  Then Gawker picked it up.  And Aravosis added his two cents about whether or not the child is transgender.

In my view, it doesn't matter whether or not the child is transgender.  Because the child was born with a boy's body and likes to wear dresses, the child is gender-variant.  And the father in question still gets my applause.

The dad, Nils Pickert, says his 5-year-old son likes to wear dresses.  When they lived in West Berlin, he says, it wasn't as much of an issue as it has become since they moved to a village in the south of Germany.  It is now talk of the village.  In Berlin, after first trying to dissuade the child from wearing skirts and dresses, which did not result in the boy having friends, Nils made a huge conceptual leap and decided that he would dress in a skirt as well.

[Padma]

I agree. His boy likes to wear dresses sometimes - all that tells us about him is... that he likes to wear dresses sometimes.

I don't know whether that even makes him gender-variant, except on an assumed scale where 'boy who doesn't ever want to wear dresses' is considered as 'gender-normal'. I'd say it just makes him clothes-variant.