Six-year-old son loves wearing dresses

[pleated]

There is a discussion over at psychologytoday.com between the mother and another person who has published work about these issues.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rai ... n/comments
I have added two comments which I hope will be useful. I also included a link to skirtcafe.

[ethelthefrog]

I'm not too sure about this one, maybe the mother just wanted a daughter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -walk.html

I've been following her blog for a couple of years. There is no evidence whatsoever to support the suggestion that she wanted a daughter. It was the child's insistence that he be allowed to wear dresses. As Duron says (in her book), why were they filtering one child's toy and clothing choices but not his older brother's? It was obvious to the parents (and to CJ) that he was being treated differently from his brother and they decided that enough was enough. If CJ wanted to play with Barbies and wear a dress, then why should they stop him? They realised that they could choose to make their own son feel comfortable as a member of his own family, or they could make strangers feel comfortable by oppressing their child. They decided that the former was the better way of parenting.

[Stevie D]

Here's another:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... it/279333/

These parents are just letting their kids be themselves.

The author of the Atlantic blog is Matt Duron, i.e. Lori's husband, CJ's dad. So it's the same family as the original poster referred to.
I've also been following Lori's blog for many months; CJ is blessed with wonderful, loving and understanding parents.