yay! I love these posts!

I explained to my son when I started explaining the 'bird and bees' that sometimes boys like girls, sometimes girls like girls, sometimes boys like boys, and it doesn't matter as long as everyone is happy.. That has eventually evolved to 'yes our best friend X is a lesbian, that means she has girlfriends not boyfriends' which was accepted with barely a shrug. He has always had dolls, construction toys, cars, teddies, and a random mix of whatever toys he is in to, just as I would offer them to him is he was a she, and he was always allowed to pick pink or purple toys/books/bags etc etc, if he wanted, same as a girl could have blue or red or green. I was brought up free from gender boundaries until I hit school, he is 7 now and happy that it is ok to dress up like a girl or boy or whatever, no matter what his friends think. He also knows he can like football, or ballet, or rugby, or dancing, or kung fu. It makes no difference to how we see him, and he is perfectly entitled to his own preferences. he is after all, his own person and I am glad he is allowed to be that way.