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I sent my 12 year old son to school in a dress to combat gender stereotypes, and now he doesn't want to go to school anymore. What should I do?
to be honest you're probably gonna have to move and he's gonna need to go to a different school. Kids are terrible and don't understand how much trauma they can inflict on other kids. Also at that age kids are incredibly vulnerable as they are trying to establish and find a reputation and identity. if you want your son to grow up having a relatively normal and undamaged personality he's gonna need a fresh start.
Now I say all this with the presumption that you forced your son to wear the dress and he did not actually want to wear it himself. If he is infact having gender identity issues then i wouldn't know what to do either maybe also move to another school where the other kids are more accepting of that.
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Was it his idea to wear a dress or yours?
If it was yours you need to apologize to your son. NEVER use your children to combat gender stereotypes, or achieve a social agenda.
Obviously, if he had chosen to do it himself that is fine, now you need to talk with him about it to find out why he no longer wants to go to school and go from there.
I don't understand why you would do that. He must have been severely jeered and called out in school.
Good job, Dad. Now he is infamous in school. He would be known as the weird boy that likes to wear girl's clothing. You didn't help to reduce any gender stereotypes, if anything, you kinda enforce it even more. No one, boy or girl, I guarantee you, would want to be his friend anymore.
Maybe you can consider sending him to another school. He's gonna have a rough time
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The hell? Making sure your son doesn’t feel trapped in what’s supposed to be “boyish”, sure, but forcing him to go in a dress when he has never even mentioned wanting to wear is bonkers. If you want to combat gender stereotypes, y o u wear the dress instead of pushing your world views onto your child.
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Wear a dress yourself, if you want to combat gender stereotypes. Don't force your child to be just something you want them to be, at the cost of their own happiness.
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Alright what the hell? Why don't you try doing that yourself if you're so much into combating gender stereo-types?
He must have been bulkied
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I hope u don't own a gun he could take to school. U 2annavteach him? Then TALK TO HIM and do it openly
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He is in the age where he is trying to create a reputation for himself and you pretty much just take the reputation he is trying to create and throw it in a volcano. I can't even think of a word to describe how ignorant and careless it was of you to send your son to school in a dress and not acknowledge the fact that it would be hell for him. I think you should change schools, you have destroyed his reputation at the school he previously went to out of ignorance and carelessness so I think the only option you could do if you do not want your son to go to school and be called 'Faggot' on a daily basis, then you should switch schools.
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Why would you do that to him? Most boys don’t want to wear dresses.
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First of all, it was pretty moronic to use your child as a social justice statement. What did you really think was going to happen? There's nothing you can do besides learn from your mistake and apologize to your son. He's a little boy so dress him like one.
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Keep up the good work, get him so hrt to get rid of the toxic masculinity. He should proudly go to school in a skirt.
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I hope your kidding, you should give your kid up for adoption because your unfit to raise a child
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Stop abusing your child.
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SEnd him to another school.
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Stop sending your son to school in a dress.
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I hope you do own a gun, I hope he shoots YOU!!!
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Maybe he needs breast implants
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