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Children develop a sense of sexual identity during the ages of adolescence and sexualization makes this task more difficult during their youth. <ref name=”:7″>{{Cite journal|date=2007|title=APA Task Force Report on the Sexualization of Girls: Empowering Girls|doi=10.1037/e582772010-001}}</ref> When parents enter their child into beauty competitions they are encouraging their children to engage in behaviors and practices that are socially associated with sexiness.<ref name=”:7″ />. With popularity of similar child beauty pageant television shows like ”[[Toddlers & Tiaras]]”, the public is concerned that young contestants are being displayed as objects of sexual desire to their audience.<ref name=”:12″>{{cite journal|last=Wolfe|first=L.|year=2012|title=Darling Divas or Damaged Daughters? The Dark Side of Child Beauty Pageants and an Administrative Law Solution|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/tulr87&i=453|journal=Tulane Law Review|volume=87|issue=2|pages=427–455|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Reality shows such as Toddlers & Tiaras reinforce the dominent perception of women’s worth being inherently and directly linked to their sexual desirability. <ref name=”:12″ /> The reality shows that document the journey of young children through pageant competitions are centred around the physical transformation of the contestants from a typical childish aesthetic to a mature woman’s aesthetic. <ref name=”:6″>{{Cite journal|last=Hodel|first=Christina|date=2014-01-01|title=Performing the Ultimate Grand Supreme: Approval, Gender and Identity in Toddlers &amp; Tiaras|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2014.070208|journal=Girlhood Studies|volume=7|issue=2|doi=10.3167/ghs.2014.070208|issn=1938-8209}}</ref> Through observing and learning from the way their environment praises these physical transformations, child contestants in these pageants come to learn that their gender identity is a performed concept and the more sexual, mature, and feminine this performance is, the more they are succeeding in performing womanhood. <ref name=”:6″ />

Children develop a sense of sexual identity during the ages of adolescence and sexualization makes this task more difficult during their youth. <ref name=”:7″>{{Cite journal|date=2007|title=APA Task Force Report on the Sexualization of Girls: Empowering Girls|doi=10.1037/e582772010-001}}</ref> When parents enter their child into beauty competitions they are encouraging their children to engage in behaviors and practices that are socially associated with sexiness.<ref name=”:7″ />. With popularity of similar child beauty pageant television shows like ”[[Toddlers & Tiaras]]”, the public is concerned that young contestants are being displayed as objects of sexual desire to their audience.<ref name=”:12″>{{cite journal|last=Wolfe|first=L.|year=2012|title=Darling Divas or Damaged Daughters? The Dark Side of Child Beauty Pageants and an Administrative Law Solution|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/tulr87&i=453|journal=Tulane Law Review|volume=87|issue=2|pages=427–455|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Reality shows such as Toddlers & Tiaras reinforce the dominent perception of women’s worth being inherently and directly linked to their sexual desirability. <ref name=”:12″ /> The reality shows that document the journey of young children through pageant competitions are centred around the physical transformation of the contestants from a typical childish aesthetic to a mature woman’s aesthetic. <ref name=”:6″>{{Cite journal|last=Hodel|first=Christina|date=2014-01-01|title=Performing the Ultimate Grand Supreme: Approval, Gender and Identity in Toddlers &amp; Tiaras|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2014.070208|journal=Girlhood Studies|volume=7|issue=2|doi=10.3167/ghs.2014.070208|issn=1938-8209}}</ref> Through observing and learning from the way their environment praises these physical transformations, child contestants in these pageants come to learn that their gender identity is a performed concept and the more sexual, mature, and feminine this performance is, the more they are succeeding in performing womanhood. <ref name=”:6″ />

Children are in “Child Beauty Pageants” only because of their age. These children are judged along with the same criteria as an adult pageant woman would be judged on. <ref name=”:8″>{{Cite journal|last=Zaborskis|first=Mary|date=2015|title=Age Drag|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/wsq/v043/43.1-2.zaborskis.html|journal=WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly|language=en|volume=43|issue=1-2|pages=115–129|doi=10.1353/wsq.2015.0020|issn=1934-1520}}</ref> Since the children are aware that their performance is expected to be the portrayal of adult womanhood, it indirectly teaches them that womanhood cannot exist without sexuality. <ref name=”:8″ />

Children are in “Child Beauty Pageants” only because of their age. These children are judged along with the same criteria as an adult pageant woman would be judged on. <ref name=”:8″>{{Cite journal|last=Zaborskis|first=Mary|date=2015|title=Age Drag|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/wsq/v043/43.1-2.zaborskis.html|journal=WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly|language=en|volume=43|issue=1-2|pages=115–129|doi=10.1353/wsq.2015.0020|issn=1934-1520}}</ref> Since the children are aware that their performance is expected to be the portrayal of adult womanhood, it indirectly teaches them that womanhood cannot exist without sexuality. <ref name=”:8″ /> The indirect lessons impact the mindset of young girls in the long term due to its implications regarding [[Social construction of gender|gender performance]]. <ref name=”:8″ />

There is controversy around the Glitz Child Beauty Pageants due to contestants dramatically enhancing their appearances and provocative performances. Performances and image alterations like the ones displayed in glitz pageants encourage young contestants to believe that having glitz beauty is the only way to gain success in both their pageant and non-pageant lives.<ref name=”:13″>{{cite journal|last=Wolfe|first=L.|year=2012|title=Darling Divas or Damaged Daughters? The Dark Side of Child Beauty Pageants and an Administrative Law Solution|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/tulr87&i=453|journal=Tulane Law Review|volume=87|issue=2|pages=427–455|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

There is controversy around the Glitz Child Beauty Pageants due to contestants dramatically enhancing their appearances and provocative performances. Performances and image alterations like the ones displayed in glitz pageants encourage young contestants to believe that having glitz beauty is the only way to gain success in both their pageant and non-pageant lives.<ref name=”:13″>{{cite journal|last=Wolfe|first=L.|year=2012|title=Darling Divas or Damaged Daughters? The Dark Side of Child Beauty Pageants and an Administrative Law Solution|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/tulr87&i=453|journal=Tulane Law Review|volume=87|issue=2|pages=427–455|url-access=subscription}}</ref>