But at 9, did you know if you liked girls?
I don't know about the dressing up in girl clothes, but I think it's reasonable that a 9 year old could know who he/she likes romantically.
At that age you're already aware of sexuality, you've seen romantic/sexual pairings in movies, games etc and you already peeped that there are kids in the class who are a little "different". I don't know why some of you are playing dumb like you grew up Mormon or some shyt.
I don't think i even knew how my dikk worked when i was 8, let alone want to be a homo and fukk other boys. I had girlfriends but didn't even really knew what that meant either. I just remember lots of G.I. Joes, Ninja Turtles and climbing trees and playing football etc.etc.
This kids parents royally fukked up.
At 9 did you have crushes on boys or girls?
The article said he wanted to dress feminine...
At 9 years old I wanted to be a power ranger, or superman,or a badass wrestler....this kid prolly pictured himself being the damsel who got saved by the knight or some shyt.
I was crushing on chicks at that age and damn sure wanted my first kiss to be with a girl.
I'm with the fellas saying that you don't know these things for real at that age.
Yeah, we were all crushing on girls, I remember being 6 years old and there was a girl I wanted to kiss. But I didn't have a "reason" to want to kiss her, there were no hormones like that flowing through my blood, it was just that I always heard about boys kissing girls and saw it in media and knew that was something to do. I knew the difference between a pretty face and an ugly face but other than that I didn't even know what part of a girl I should be attracted to, I didn't even know what sex was.
I remember a few years ago my friends 3-year-old daughter said she wanted to marry her 4-year-old sister when she grew up. She didn't know what marriage was, she just knew married people lived together and her sister was her best friend so she wanted to live with her. This little 9-year-old breh probably just had a close friend who he felt some sort of deep friendship with and interpreted it all crazy with the current culture.
How is a 9-year-old who still years away from puberty going to be having such well-developed sexual feelings that he knows his sexuality like that? You gotta have heavy exposure to that culture to even know what that would look like, much less understand exactly what your own feelings are and then understand that you're supposed to "come out" to your classmates.
Speaking of that, what is the point of "coming out" anyway? Was he planning on having sex with one of the other 4th-graders in the class? No? Then
why come out?
There are all sorts of problems here. His mama should have just told him, "That's a grown up subject and you're still growing up, we'll wait and see how you feel when you get older. There's no need to advertise your sexuality now." That should be the advice to EVERY 9-year-old regardless of their sexual feelings.
It's really horrible what happened. It's gotta be just awful for the family. But I don't know why they're trying to force little kids to deal with things that they're not even equipped to deal with yet .