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In reply to the discussion: It's a boy! Couple reveal sex of their 'gender neutral' kid after five years [View all]pnwmom
(110,328 posts)This is about her narcissism -- she's just using him to prove her beliefs. Good parents validate their children as separate human beings -- which she doesn't seem capable of doing.
How would you feel if this was a biological male who was strongly identifying as a girl, and the parents were forcing him to deny his own feelings?
Well, this boy knows he is a boy and she's been giving him the message that he can't tell anyone. That there's something wrong with letting people know he's a boy.
She said it's been getting harder and harder to keep his gender a secret -- obviously because he just wants to be who he is. It was fine that she was doing this when he was a baby. No harm done. But as soon as he was able to express his own preference and his own identity as a boy, that should have been the end of this experiment.