Does Gender Expression have an Age Requirement?
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By Marilyn Pierce
Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:00
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here have been a few highly visible media stories over the past few months about children younger and younger expressing their genders as other than assigned at birth. These children have been paraded and talked about on morning "News" programs, magazine programs and syndicated talk shows.
You see little children in pretty dresses, cute shoes and hair done just right. Almost as if they're ready to compete in a pageant.
I find it very sexist that it is only children assigned as boys who express as girls that are the ones talked about, never children assigned as girls who express as boys. I believe that it is the cis-world's view that anyone who doesn't want to be male is just plain weird. It, of course, is quite understandable why girls would want to be boys. Boys are cooler, right?