from Gender Identity Disorders

Parents Told Not To Worry
About Son's 'Princess' Obsession

September 5, 2006 - Parents of a 3½ year old boy recently wrote to the Washington Post for advice on their son's obsession with being a princess and dressing up in Disney princess costumes.

The parents wrote, in part: "Should be grin and bear our son's obsession? Should we declare our house a Disney Princess-free zone? Or should we do something in between?"

Post columnist Marguerite Kelly told them: "It's way too early to think that a love of Disney Princesses at 3 is a sign that your son will be homosexual at 13. But if , by chance, he is, homosexuality is an innate condition. Early brain studies have found that 5 to 10% of boys are more likely to be homosexuals when they grow up if a piece of the hypothalamus - the piece that controls a person's sexual orientation - is considerably smaller than it is for heterosexuals."

Additional Reading: Gender Identity Disorders; Pediatric Academic Societies' 2006 Annual Meeting Encourages Normalization Of Gender-Variant Children; Gender Identity Disorder; The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science; Homosexuality: The Essentialist Argument Continues to Erode.