[Schneed10]

A couple thoughts here:

1) As for the concerned moms expressing "concern", I would hardly call that bullying. Bullying requires intimidation. Not that it's great for a parent to make those faces in front of a child, but still, it's not bullying.

2) I have a hard time believing you can know your child's sexual persuasion at age five. There are plenty of flamboyant straight men.

3) The mother was right to let him wear it, and there's nothing wrong with other kids making fun of it. As long as they're not intimidating the boy or being overtly hurtful, that's how the world works. Mothers and fathers need to be all-accepting and all loving, creating a comfortable and accepting environment at home so that the child has a place where he always feels safe. Let the world beyond react how they'll react, and the child will learn at a young age how to respond to those reactions. Sometimes you get made fun of, and you figure out how to avoid being the butt of jokes going forward. Or maybe you decide eff those jerks, I'll wear what I want. Either way, that's something a child should go through.

If I were a 5 year old kid in that class, I would have made fun of him for sure. Johnny is a girl... Johnny is a girl!!!

That's not bullying, it's a healthy self-correcting way of forming social norms. You just want to make sure nobody's being so relentless that the kid wants to kill himself.

The mother needs to chill, she's way overreacting.