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  • The Power of the Franchise

    Posted by Martina on 28/08/2016 at 3:46 am

    Some members may have seen a recent media article (Pink News) about a film star, Charlize Theron, being criticised for allowing her adopted son to wear an Elsa Dress and wig. If you’re not already aware, there is a massive marketing franchise built up around an animated film called Frozen. The main characters are two princesses called Anna and Elsa.

    This story was of great personal interest to me as my grandson, now nearly 5, is besotted with the whole thing and I nearly always have to play the DVD for him when he comes to visit. He has dresses for both princesses but I think looks prettiest in the Anna one. One day, not long ago, he rolled up to our apartment wearing it accompanied by my son who seems to have begrudgingly become used to the idea. I just say to him: “Don’t worry, he will grow up to be who he will be.”

    It is probably a bit early to judge where my grandson is going with this but he has a great interest in wearing girls’ clothes and refuses to have his hair cut. One day we picked him up from school and there he was with his Elsa dress tucked under his arm. Going up in the lift to our apartment, an older man asked him if he was a boy or a girl. Without hesitation, he replied: “A girl!”

    We live in interesting times.

    Martina replied 8 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Deleted User

    Deleted User
    30/08/2016 at 3:54 am

    And we all look forward to the day when it won’t be an issue.

  • Juliette

    Member
    01/09/2016 at 11:20 pm

    I am too looking forward to that day. You wear one thing slightly not “””MALE””” and it is an issue even with people you thought were rational.
    Indeed we must be able to be who we are.
    Juliette

  • Bridgette

    Member
    10/09/2016 at 11:32 am

    What a lovely story. thank you for sharing t with the rest of us. Do you think he knows where and who he wants to be ? I only ask as my first experience in dressing in girls clothes was in my sisters clothes at the age of . I knew then there was something about the way I felt and obviously being Bridgette is a part of my life. I’m happy for your grandson as I believe that identifying with your gender, at an early age, is much more widely accepted.
    It must have been very heart warming for you as well.

  • Martina

    Member
    11/09/2016 at 1:27 am

    Thank you Bridgette. I agree with what you are saying about gender recognition. Our grandson, who just turned 5 last Wednesday, continues to insist that he is a girl; however, our feeling is that we should neither encourage nor discourage him from pursuing his girly interests; he will have to figure it out for himself while, of course, we watch with great interest. (It does make me wonder though if gender orientation can be inherited but that could be the subject of a different post perhaps.)