There is a boy in Seattle who likes to wear dresses. I am sure he is not the only one. This began at age 2 and his mother has written a book for children about what her now 5 year old, who calls himself "A princess boy," experiences.
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
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She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
She never imagined there would be so much interest. People from around the world have requested her book. She and her husband have accepted their son's desire to wear dresses and "pretty things." But, some have ridiculed them, saying that no child at age 2 can know their sexual identity. I beg to differ and I am not alone. I knew. The often told story from my childhood was how I threw off and out a pink dress my mom put me in, from my crib. I preferred dark colored pants and my toy of choice was cowboy gear, guns, toy swords, and so on. My mother gave up and accepted after a short time, because I was also very stubborn. Everyone around me showed heterosexuality. Every book and TV show showed heterosexuality. I thought any day I would turn into, and be treated like, the boy that I was. In 1960 that was NOT going to happen. Suffice to say, my mom would have wanted this book too.
Dyson Kilodavis chose Cinderella for his Halloween costume. His parents offered sparkly karate outfits, no go. A trip to a psychologist proclaimed Dyson was perfectly happy with his sexual identity. No problem.
"The parents shouldn't let the kid do it just because he wants to," said Alajauan Adams, 27, a youth coordinator for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. "I'm not here to judge if it's right or wrong for him to be an outcast, but the reality is he's going to be and you're not protecting him from it."
Really? He NEEDS protection from 27 year-olds like YOU, Alajauan? You just judged, juried, and gave his term: outcast. Meanwhile his parents are accepting their son as he is. They have spoken to his teachers and the teachers wanted a copy of Cheryl's book. Now other schools have requested it as well.
"I like to dress up in different kinds of clothes and jewelry," the boy offers on Seattle's local news station, KING 5's "New Day Northwest."
The host asks: " 'Cause it's fun?"
"Mm h'mm," Dyson responds.
An online radio blogger had this to say: "I mean it's just crazy. Your 2-year-old is picking out pink colors and wanting to wear pink dresses and so therefore you start buying him dresses? I mean a 2-year-old has not a clue as to whether they're boy, girl, fruit, vegetable or a rock." Oh yeah? Well, maybe YOUR kids didn't know at at 2 if they were a rock or banana, but THAT is a reason to try and spare your child from hard times ahead. Sorry to inform you that some research has show gay people have higher IQs than the general population.
Thank goodness there are parents out there like Dyson's. Support from parents trumps bullies at school and hurtful words. Is this "just a phase?" Uh, no. Yeah, I said it. I am waiting to hear from all those heterosexual men who wore dresses as boys, preferred Cinderella over GI Joe, then suddenly "grew out of it." Haven't heard or read about one yet.
Does this mean if your boy DOESN'T want to wear dresses that he is not gay? Sorry, no. And that is why The Princess Boy is such an important book. We need to discuss all this. We need to not be afraid that our children might be so different that they will be outcasts all their life. Remember: Outcasts are not born, they are made by people of ignorance and intolerance.
Shine on, Dyson!
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