Children play with identity. A boy wonders what it would be like to be a girl, a squirrel, a piece of magnetic putty. He is expected to grow out of believing he’s a squirrel. Having been celebrated for being a baby drag queen will be hard to grow out of.https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1136858746829697025 …
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The hard Qs I think you're pointing at trouble me. A kid can decide (as a function of his own interests + peer group, etc, to degrees impossible to tease out) that he'd like to try drag. Should he be stopped, knowing that *other* adults will exploit him to signal their own stuff?
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What *I think* is clear is that the moment a little boy performs publicly in drag, the perception others have of him, the language and feedback that surrounds him, and the amount of attention he draws will dramatically transform in ways that are *very* sticky, for better or worse
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