Psychology Today recently published A Guide To Genderqueer, Non-binary, and Genderfluid Identity. Offering suggestions and frameworks, I particularly love their conclusion: “…..accepting GQs for who they are doesn’t mean we have to give up our own binary sex/gender world; it just means that we shouldn’t impose it on everyone. We might learn something about that world to hear from those for whom standard sexual and gender categories don’t work.”
I often talk (or, write) about the impact of imposing such narrow gender roles on boys, the most visible imposition being clothing. Those who push the narrow confines of their role face backlash, as the article discusses. So, I get giddy when clothing lines/ retailers do some of the pushing and was ecstatic to find that H & M is now offering reversible sequin t-shirts in the boy section. The content is limited to dinosaurs, sharks, crocodile, Mickey Mouse, super heros, rock bands, NASA, and Paw Patrol. I’d love to see a kitten or an ice cream cone (yum) but for now I’ll order a glittery dinosaur and watch my son’s face light up when he sees his new t-shirt:
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