gender definitions - bathroom edition

no less than 5 people have sent me a link to a story circulating this week about a man in germany who chose to wear a skirt in a show of solidarity with his young (fond of wearing dresses) son.  it makes me happy to think that there are so many people in my world who accept my little guy's penchant for wearing gowns and sparkly things and gave me a good reminder to talk to my kids about gender stereotypes.  it went pretty much like this:

'beatrice - can boys wear dresses?'
'duh, mommy - yes.  there is NO SUCH THING as boy clothes or girls clothes.  boys can wear dresses and girls can wear shirts and shorts.  also there is NO SUCH THING as boy colors or girl colors.  the kids at my school said that pink is a girl color so i told them that there was NO SUCH THING as girl colors.  also boys can be princesses and girls can be princes.  hardie is a princess.  i want to be a prince.  the only thing that is BOY and GIRL is a bathroom.  boys can't use the girl bathroom.  duh.'

'hardie - can boys wear dresses?'
'yes.  i am a princess.  can i play wii?'

if my hand weren't already so sore from those gifted high-fives i would be congratulating myself on a parenting job well done.  except for the 'duh' part.