[News/Commentary] [USA] Is Shiloh Pitt-Jolie Dressing like a Boy Wrong?
Stephanie Stevens
Is Shiloh Pitt-Jolie Dressing like a Boy Wrong?
Just a Tomboy?
By Jolie du Pre
Published March 09, 2010
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Takeaways
* Three-year-old girl Shiloh Pitt-Jolie can be seen in boys
clothes and short hair
* It is okay for Shiloh to be a tomboy and dress in boys clothes?
* If Shiloh is becoming transgendered, it's too early to tell
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Shiloh Pitt-Jolie, one of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's natural
daughters, has a new look, as reported at Life & Style Weekly
<http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2010/03/large-1011-cover.html> .
Their beautiful, three-year-old blond girl now has short hair and
wears boy's clothes.
Are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie dressing Shiloh Pitt-Jolie like a boy
because they want to or because Shiloh wants them to?
Shiloh Pitt-Jolie used to be seen with long blond hair and clothes
typically seen on a little girl. Now the three-year-old natural
daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is seen with short blond hair
and boys clothes. According to Life & Style Weekly, Shiloh wants her
parents to call her "John" not Shiloh. It is an indication that Shiloh
is comfortable with her boy image and strongly suggests that her hair
and clothes are a look that she wants.
Stylists and the public are not used to a beautiful blond girl looking
like a boy. They are much more used to seeing Suri Cruise, the
daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, in little toddler heels than
they are Suri Pitt-Jolie in boy clothes, for example. "I get that
times are tough but does Angie really need to have Shiloh sharing
clothes with her brothers? Hopefully, we won't be seeing Maddox in one
of Shiloh's dresses any time soon," said celebrity stylist Gili
Rashal-Niv.
However, is there anything inherently wrong with Shiloh Pitt-Jolie
wearing short hair and boy clothes? She may be a tomboy, and as
reported at Family Education, "You should accept her with open arms
and make sure her teachers do too. You tell her she makes you happy
just the way she is." If Shiloh does not want to wear dresses, should
Pitt and Jolie make her just because they are being criticized in
celebrity magazines and by celebrity stylists?
What if Shiloh Pitt-Jolie is really showing early signs of being a
transgender individual ?
As reported at ABC's 20/20
<http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3088298&page=1> , "But for some
children, what's between their legs doesn't match what's between their
ears -- they insist they were born into the wrong body. They are
transgender children, diagnosed with gender identity disorder, and
their parents insist this is not a phase." Although people can show
signs of what they will become at an early age, at three years of age,
it's too early to know what Shiloh Pitt-Jolie will be as an adult.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have accepted her the way she is, and
most would agree that is always the best route. Time will tell if
Shiloh Pitt-Jolie is just a tomboy or battling an identify, such as
Cher's child Chastity Bono, who is now living as a man and who goes by
the name of Chaz Bono.
Sources:
Why is Angelina turning Shiloh into a boy?
<http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2010/03/large-1011-cover.html> , Life
& Style Weekly
The Tomboy or Tough Girl
<http://life.familyeducation.com/girls/self-expression/55283.html> ,
Family Education
Alan B. Goldberg and Joneil Adriano, 'I'm a Girl'--Understanding
Transgender Children
<http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3088298&page=1> , ABC News 20/20
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