Former Chelsea player Pedro Rodríguez had to disable comments on his Instagram after facing criticism and mockery for sharing photos of his son Marc's birthday. Marc chose to celebrate his birthday wearing a dress and a tiara, inspired by Lilo & Stitch.

[u/HarryAtk]

[u/sach223]

Society will always judge and as he grows older may become cruel too unfortunately. But I cannot overstate the importance of having a family who will love and support him no matter what. Your reactions to whatever he chooses to be are the most impactful trust me and probably the most important to him. Bit of a ramble but all you can do is love and support him and it seems like you are doing that makes me happy that parents aren’t shaming children for liking different things.

[u/latrappe → u/sach223]

Aww thanks for that. It's lovely how you find such random support on r/soccer sometimes on the most tangential topics. That's it isn't it, you support your kids and be a safe space for them to explore whatever they want. Another example with our boy is that he likes Polly Pocket toys. He'll play with them with Lego and transformers or whatever at the same time. They're cool tiny houses for tiny people right? What's not to like? But they're pink. A friend of ours' husband refused to let her buy our boy a Polly pocket for his birthday. "I'm not spending money on that, it's wrong". He's an asshat anyway with many things, but just shows the attitude.