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    The Boy with Girl Hair

    October 25, 2021 - By 

    My 6-year-old son has very pretty, shoulder length blond hair, and strangers always assume he’s a girl. He never pays them any attention, and always seems to think they are just silly and if they can’t tell he’s a boy that’s their problem. So he surprised me the other day while I was washing his hair in the bath, and he asked, “Mommy, why do I have girl hair?” So I told him, “You don’t have girl hair. You don’t have boy hair. You just have hair. Girls can have short hair, boys can have long hair. It’s all just…

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    A Boy in a Dress, So What?

    August 5, 2017 - By 

    When I was little, I won a lot of costume contests. But one contest in particular stands out to me because I didn’t win. I came in second and the winner was dressed as a maid. At first, I was upset because my mom and I had worked really hard on my black and white jester costume. But then I talked to the maid and found out “she” was a boy. Mind. Blown. I absolutely loved it. He was dressed as a girl, dressed as a maid! Double costume! I didn’t question it or think it meant anything weird. Fast…