He loves drag queens and thinks that it is fantastic that boys can play dress up and become beautiful girls, even after they grow up. He goes to ballet class and loves to dance. He never wanted to play sports and likes to draw pictures and do word searches. He also likes to play with trains, especially wooden subway trains. I looked at both in the store and figured that the action figure was as much a doll as a Barbie, so if he wanted the one marketed to girls, that was fine with me. He preferred fashion dolls to action figures.
“He has always been very gender fluid when it came to toys and his development. His mother responded to those who thought it was “inappropriate” for her child to be participating in the festivities in the most beautiful way: As you can imagine, there was some backlash to the photo.