Yes; while I would much rather my kid not do anything behind my back, I would also much rather make sure that what s/he sees is not going to confuse him/her because s/he is too young to understand it, even with an explanation.
Case in point: we were all watching "Ninja Warrior" the other night. Perfectly harmless family entertainment. Until the post-op transsexual came on. It was perfectly obvious this had once been a man - the entire body with the exception of the breasts was very masculine. (& let's not kid ourselves that there is no masculine/feminine). But there were, indeed, breasts, long hair & a lot of make-up. A LOT of make-up. And, what's worse, when my daughter had said "Hey, there's a girl in this one!", my husband already said, "No,m I think that's a man." Whereupon we really had to explain it to PuppyBoy.
Now, I have no problem telling my kids anything & everything. But at 5 years old, there's no way in heck I want to tell him anything that has to do with the removal of a penis. He's rather fond of his, for some reason, & I'd rather not scare him w/the knowledge that it could conceivably come off in any fashion. So it was fortunate that I was able to skip over this in explaining that "Sometimes, there are boys or men who really feel that they should have been born girls, & so they decide to be women, & change their names & dress like women."
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Case in point: we were all watching "Ninja Warrior" the other night. Perfectly harmless family entertainment. Until the post-op transsexual came on. It was perfectly obvious this had once been a man - the entire body with the exception of the breasts was very masculine. (& let's not kid ourselves that there is no masculine/feminine). But there were, indeed, breasts, long hair & a lot of make-up. A LOT of make-up. And, what's worse, when my daughter had said "Hey, there's a girl in this one!", my husband already said, "No,m I think that's a man." Whereupon we really had to explain it to PuppyBoy.
Now, I have no problem telling my kids anything & everything. But at 5 years old, there's no way in heck I want to tell him anything that has to do with the removal of a penis. He's rather fond of his, for some reason, & I'd rather not scare him w/the knowledge that it could conceivably come off in any fashion. So it was fortunate that I was able to skip over this in explaining that "Sometimes, there are boys or men who really feel that they should have been born girls, & so they decide to be women, & change their names & dress like women."
Not all censorship is bad, or even judgmental.