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[–]CJLez 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can't tell that a kid is gay or straight at that age. Given the ability to express themselves freely all children will have a mixture of what society views as feminine and masculine hobbies and mannerisms.

However, some people are so deeply homophobic that they view anything is even slightly effeminate to mean that a boy is gay. Here is a mother who, in 2013, murdered her 4 year old son because she thought he was gay. Here is a story from 2010 about a 17 month old boy beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend for "acting like a girl." Here is another from 2005 about a 3 year old beaten to death by his father because he thought he was gay. There are more stories like this as well, these are just the first few I found.