(ETH) – A TikTok video featuring a 6-year-old daughter and her mother has gone viral on TikTok after the mother is seen and heard on the video clip pressing her daughter on what gender she wants to be.

According to the report from TheBlaze, the mother in the video— who, on TikTok, goes by “Smooches24” — can be heard asking her unnamed child questions about whether she is a boy or a girl. The mother then shared the video on TikTok and captioned it, “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.” The mother begins appears to be trying to persuade the child with questions about her perceived gender identity. “Are you a boy or are you a girl?” the woman can be heard asking the child.


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The child responds, “I don’t know. I don’t know who I am.” The mother continues, “So you don’t know who you are?” The little girl can be seen shaking her head. The woman presses, “Who do you think you are?” The little girl answers, “I feel like I’m a boy, but I feel like—” Interrupting, the mother interjects, “You feel like you’re a boy? What makes you think that?” The child appears to become very uneasy and responds, “I’m not sure, but I feel like I’m talking like a boy.”