and it starts from the beginning, with parents teaching this to their little boys. I had a friend who had several daughters and then had a baby boy. She was okay with him playing with dolls and dressing up in princess outfits to show she was not going to 'be one of those parents' who was intolerant, yet when I showed her a catalog of kids' clothes, and showed her some of the cute stuff, she didn't like it because the 'light blue' was 'too girly' for him and that she always dressed him in 'boy colors'. WTF? He's a baby! She's not the first parent I've run into like that. I knew someone who didn't like red on their son because it was too close to pink. 
I only ever saw her little boy dressed in navy blue, green and brown. It is taught right from the start that 'female' clothing or colors are inferior or something.
There is a young girl at my daughter's bus stop that wears 'boy' clothing and has a short hair cut. I didn't actually know she was a girl at first until I heard her name. No one ridicules her. No one even pays much attention to it. Somehow I can't imagine it would be the same if a boy decided to grow his hair long and wear frilly dresses to school.
It has to start from the beginning. We have to make it okay for a boy to wear a dress to school if he wants.
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