Father of the Year Helps Dress-Wearing Son Feel Comfortable By Putting on a Skirt Himself

"My five year old son likes to wear dresses," says German dad Nils Pickert.

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What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

When Alex was 4, he pronounced himself “a boy and a girl,” but in the two years since, he has been fairly clear that he is simply a boy who sometimes likes to dress and play in conventionally feminine ways. Some days at home he wears dresses, paints his fingernails and plays with dolls; other days, he roughhouses, rams his toys together or pretends to be Spider-Man. Even his movements ricochet between parodies of gender: on days he puts on a dress, he is graceful, almost dancerlike, and his sentences rise in pitch at the end. On days he opts for only “boy” wear, he heads off with a little swagger.

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