![]() My mother told me, repeatedly, that I had always loved dolls and never liked toy trucks. She did, however, express very strong opinions about my gender, and these didn’t quite match how I felt inside. When I was a child, my mother never wrote an op-ed about my gender for a newspaper. There’s just one problem: Davis’ kid deserves room to explore and experiment out of the public eye, without mom declaring her gender must be female and then broadcasting it, along with the complicated presentation that leads people to mistake her for male or transgender, to millions of readers. ![]() Wearing boys’ clothes doesn’t turn a girl into a boy, or vice versa, and all children should have room to experiment with clothes and toys and styles freely rather than feel forced into the limited menu of gender-conforming options only. The movement toward accepting and understanding transgender children shouldn’t narrow the boundaries of how cisgender boys and girls express themselves. On its face, this is a reasonable concern. Davis applauds her daughter’s rejection of traditional feminine style, but wishes that other people would stop thinking the child might be transgender, a curiosity they indicate with regular questions about her pronouns and gender identity. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Lisa Selin Davis writes that her daughter, who wears boys’ clothes and has short hair, is definitely not transgender. ![]()
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