Elliot Page Says 'I Knew I Was a Boy When I Was a Toddler': 'Absolutely, 100%'

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[–]teacherterf 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My kid also knew he was a boy as a toddler. At age 4 or 5 he expressed "knowledge" that girls were children with long hair who wore dresses liked princesses, and that boys were children who had short hair and liked dinosaurs. He had also somehow "learned" that orange was a boy colour and that cats were all girls. He was only vaguely aware of penises and vaginas at that age, and it took longer for that particular lesson to stick. And my kid was and is pretty age-typical.

It's the job of parents and other trusted adults to correct children who "know" that stereotypes define sex, not reinforce those misconceptions. With the guidance of adults, my kid eventually grew out of his childish ideas. Apparently Page never did.

[–]TheOnyxGoddess 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I get what you're saying. I hated anything that was blue when I was at that age bcause I noticed it was associated with boys, but that's because I didn't understand how arbitrary what the colour represents as a little kid. I also thought blue was a pretty ugly colour. Pink once upon a time was associated with boys and I loved pink, does that mean I knew what gender I was? I knew that whatever I was born with is what I am and favoured colours which represents me in society (aside from finding pink aesthetically appealing at the time), not that me liking the colours itself indicate my gender. These days I like less pink and more blue, by their logic I'm "non-binary".