I’m not ready to buy into this. Even if this kid truly had a ‘female’ brain...
Why wear the dresses?
If you were to go to an average first grade class today, odds are 90% of the girls would have pants on. If you go to Google images and search ‘eagleside elementary school fort carson, co’, you can see photos of the students in this kid’s school...and almost all the girls have pants on.
So why the dress?
Is this kid not only ‘female’ in the brain, but he also happens to have the most ‘girly’ female brain in the class? That seems unlikely...you’d think he would be more ‘in the middle’, especially if any of the testosterone gets through.
So why is he on TV with Katie Couric...in a dress?
The parents. They keep putting the dresses on the kid. They are steering the kid to be ‘girly’.
Why not dress the kid in pants (like most other boys and girls)? The parents should quit trying to be ‘unique’ vicariously through their kid. And, it would make life alot easier for him, quite frankly. And this kid can go in the stall in the boy’s room, and use the same toilet that the girls do.
Then when the kid is 13 years old, he can make his own decision on whether or not he wants to be deliberately different than the rest of the pack...and it won’t have been forced upon him by his parents.
This is why I said that they have to be thoroughly examined psychologically, to insure that they are not victims of their parents weird ideas. If they are, then they need psychiatric help, and their parents need to be investigated for child abuse.
Just because some parents might do this (almost equivalent to Munchhausen syndrome) does not mean that there are not other children who have organic wiring problems in their brains.