My wife believes our son is transgendered. I don’t. She keeps doctor shopping for a psych to diagnose him.
Title is a good summary.
My wife and I are 38 and we have one son, Taylor, aged 6.
Since he was a baby my wife has been dressing him in “gender neutral clothing” and also insisted that he give him a more ambiguous gendered first name.
At first she convinced me by saying that anything we that is gender neutral can be used again when we have another child regardless of gender.
But now that he is in school, he see girls wearing dresses and he wanted to wear one to.
This lead to an argument between my wife and I where I said absolutely not and we went back and forth but ultimately I caved.
Now my son wears dresses all the time - not everyday. But enough that people around town are starting to talk.
In the last three months, she/we have taken him to four different psych specialists to look at him and they all say the same thing - that he is a perfectly normal boy who just enjoys wearing a dress.
He otherwise plays boy games and watches boy tv shows and so on.
My wife is convinced though that he is transgendered (which personally I am skeptical that a child that age could even know what transgender is and decide that they are it!).
My son is starting to dread visiting all these shrinks and even told me privately that he doesn’t wanna go because they ask him about his private parts and he doesn’t like that.
The more I look back in it the more I question why she insisted that all clothes and baby items be gender neutral and also why she decided on the name Taylor for him.
I’m worried that she will keep doctor shopping until she finds one that goes along with everything she says.
Should I just take my son and run far away? Will a lawyer even help here? This is driving me nuts and I really truly worry about my son.
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