I do believe the parents have a care of duty towards their kids. knowing the fights and discrimination that goes against alternative lifestyles even to this day among adults how could they let their son be "lead to the slaughter" like this??? The parents must realize that this is going to be a controversial thing, especially with kids who have no filters in their heads yet at age 9. Curiosity will inevitably lead to questions at the very least, and potentially lead to teasing and torment that will follow this kid till the day he finishes public school, (and beyond)
These guys are idiots. Which one of these two brain surgeons figures "if my son wants to wear a dress to school I will let him." Without for one minute thinking of the kids well being. Kids can be evil, cruel little monsters towards one another when they want to be. They are relentless and without mercy when the horde decides to descend upon its prey. The parents thinking that allowing their son to go to school this way wouldn't cause any sort of backlash eventually is them being: 1. Super naive or 2. They are just plain ignorant to how kids will behave towards someone that is different.
Letting a kid at that age cross dress cannot be healthy for the kid either. Sure, they found love in the arms of a person of the same sex. That's great. I can't figure it out for the life of me how getting plowed by a guy would be fun, but hey. Whatever floats your boat. The kid is 9, perhaps he is gay as well, perhaps he isn't. And they are just encouraging their son to not repress any feelings or urges, and I can understand that they are probably counter arguing with the fact that they want their child to express himself how he wants. However, this is not an ideal world, and quite frankly it is far from it. They have to protect their son first and foremost.
By allowing your son to wear a dress to school, is pretty much the exact same thing as slathering him in blood and throwing him to the wolves. Sorry, there is no other way to put it. You are BEGGING for your son to get taunted and teased and perhaps worse. Your son wants to wear a dress? Do it at home behind closed doors. Society does not fully accept alternative lifestyles yet, and putting your son in this scenario unfortunately was a bad parenting call. This is a battle that they know and have experienced FIRST HAND! Hell, gay marriage was just recently allowed in the past few years, clearly there is still stigma against different lifestyles! Thinking that there would be no repercussions from this action is utter stupidity. It would be great that if all the kids would accept this cross dressing kid for who he is, but lets be realistic, that shit ain't happening. I don't give a shit if you are gay or not, so don't get me wrong here, I don't want this to come across as being anti gay. I am just making the point that society as a whole doesn't agree with yet and there are going to be people (kids and adults) that will ruthlessly torment this kid. I'm just being realistic.
As for your son Glen. I make no call. I know if I was 9 I would have asked the same question. Considering he was only given a "talk" I assume he was not a main perpetrator in the incident which may have involved teasing, but perhaps was the catalyst for the situation arising. I fully blame the parents for letting it happen in the first place. If they want to believe that life is roses and gumdrops and their kid can wear a dress to school with no fears, then I need to get on the same drugs that they take cause life ain't that easy and they best take those rose colored glasses off fast, before their son gets berated and teased to the point of real emotional and psychological damage.
In this day and age we hear of bullying among children for a hell of a lot less, and putting your son in this situation is just asking for it. Yes, yes in a perfect world their son should be allowed to wear whatever the hell he wants but this world is not even close to being the Utopia that his parents must think we live on....
if it's the parents telling him wearing a dress is ok after HE asks, I'm fine with that as well, but it is being forced upon the kid by the parents then 100% not ok IMO.
