According to the details, a mother who, on TikTok, goes by “Smooches24”, claims she initiated the conversation with her daughter by asking her about her gender. The caption read: “My six-year-old daughter asks me if I think she ‘looks like a boy.’ I asked her, ‘Do you wanna look like a boy?’ Her response left me speechless.”
In the video, which is accompanied by the ethereal sound of voices singing to make it seem pleasant, the voice of the alleged mother asks the little girl, “Are you a boy or are you a girl?” The little girl, who is wearing a baseball cap backward, answers, “I don’t know. I don’t know who I am.”
The mother urges, “So you don’t know who you are?”
The girl shakes her head a little.
The mother pushes the question further – this time asking “Who do you think you are?”
Pausing for a moment before she answers, the girl says, “I feel like I’m a boy.” She continues, “But I feel like —” before the mother cuts her off and asks “You feel like you’re a boy? What makes you think that?” The child, who once again looks very adorably invested in answering her mother’s question, finally replies with, “I’m not sure, but I feel like I’m talking like a boy.”
This is child abuse. pic.twitter.com/6frymXapMW
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) May 3, 2021
Political commentator Sara Gonzalez was among the first to call out the video on Twitter; the Blaze TV presenter shared the clip on the platform, alongside the caption: “This is child abuse.”
One Twitter user mocked the mother in the video, and responded, “‘I don’t know why I feel like a boy, mommy, but I think I will get my emotional needs met if I answer the way you obviously expect me to.'”
“Her response left her speechless…..because she couldn’t believe how well her daughter recited the speech she taught her,” said another user.
A third user fired back, “If someone had asked me if I thought I was a dinosaur at 6 years old … I would have said YES. These questions and conversations should not be taking place at all with children this young. LET YOUR CHILDREN BE F***ING CHILDREN YOU PSYCHOPATHS.”