{"id":117847,"date":"2022-01-28T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=117847"},"modified":"2022-01-28T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:44:11","slug":"evan-the-boy-who-dresses-up-as-a-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/evan-the-boy-who-dresses-up-as-a-princess","title":{"rendered":"Evan, the boy who dresses up as a princess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evan loves to wear skirts and dresses, he says he feels prettier and cooler in them than when he wears pants and a T-shirt. As soon as he wakes up he dresses exactly like the Disney princesses for whom he loves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evan is six years old, a boy who wears girls&#8217; clothes. He is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/4-year-old-boy-with-autism-who-likes-to-dress-up-evan-mcleod-finds-magical-friends-in-disneyland-characters-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the adopted children of Eeka Rocha McLeod, a single<\/a> mom who chronicles almost every moment of her children&#8217;s lives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/4-year-old-boy-with-autism-who-likes-to-dress-up-evan-mcleod-finds-magical-friends-in-disneyland-characters-california\/\" target=\"{wpml_trans_unit_7_0_1_-1_1}\" rel=\"{wpml_trans_unit_7_0_1_-1_2} noopener\">on Instagram<\/a>, in sugary, glossy videos with a studied and perfect direction. Evan has autism and, according to his mother, would best express his joy and <em>joie de vivre<\/em> in women&#8217;s clothing, with long hair, lock dyed red, holding hands with fairy tale heroines Disneyland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CZC_K1SN7HE\/?utm_medium=share_sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with a video<\/a> broadcast on the Instagram profile of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/themcleodfamily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the McLeod family<\/a>, Evan met Robert Reeves, Mick Peterson, Bill Lyons and Jessay Martin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-pop-culture\/old-gays-are-getting-docuseries-rcna4620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;The Old Gays,&#8221;<\/a> a group composed of four gentlemen of a certain age who are LGBT+ rights activists and are the stars of, among other things, an unscripted docuseries produced by Brian Graden Media.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four of them wear women&#8217;s clothing and &#8220;every day they challenge gender stereotypes without setting limits. The Old Gays, with their funny videos, remind us how important it is to be ourselves and to do what makes us feel good, no matter our age.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that the phenomenon of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chedonna.it\/2020\/12\/03\/uomo-etero-veste-abiti-da-donna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">men, even heterosexual men, liking to wear sheath dresses<\/a> is gaining popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecnicadellascuola.it\/studenti-con-la-gonna-in-classe-il-prof-non-fa-lezione-e-spiega-i-motivi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">showing up to school in a skirt for some students<\/a> constitutes a chance to demonstrate solidarity with an increasingly vogue gender ideology, to the point where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanotoday.it\/attualita\/studente-gonna-bottoni-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a teacher <\/a>w<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanotoday.it\/attualita\/studente-gonna-bottoni-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as recently punished for not playing along<\/a> with the pretense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/it\/in-afghanistan-bambine-vestite-da-maschi-per-sfuggire-al-controllo-dei-talebani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What a difference, though, from little Sanam, who disguises herself as &#8220;Omid&#8221;<\/a>  in men&#8217;s clothes just to be able to attend school, to ride a bicycle, to help her father at his stall as a mask peddler, to steal a few years of a kind of normality from the female segregation of an Afghanistan that locks women behind the bars of their own sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video account of meeting with LGBT+ activists &#8220;The Old Gays&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":117823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"Evan loves to wear skirts and dresses, he says he feels prettier and cooler in them than when he wears pants and a T-shirt. 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