An earlier version of this story was published in September 2017.
We at HuffPost Parenting value a girl’s ability to be multidimensional and to be passionate about what she loves, whether that means adoring princesses, loving dinosaurs, worshipping superheroes or all of the above.
We asked members of our parenting community to send in photos of their daughters proving that girls are more than what’s often marketed to them in the toy aisle and what’s demonstrated to them through sometimes limiting societal norms.
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Here are 44 photos of girls who want nothing to do with gender stereotypes:
1
Jenifer Kasten
2
Joyelle Morris
3
Dana White
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4
Mallory Asche
5
Marla Fasano
6
Aimee Nance
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7
Bre Thurston
8
Nicole Fleck McKinney
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10
Brittany Nick
11
Shannon VanCoughnett
12
Lori Grow
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13
Sacha Coutu
14
Lisa Zawada
15
Elise Schreier
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16
Sylvia Spence Blair
17
Amy Williams
18
Jacci Thompson
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19
Kathryn Daniel
20
Kaitlyn Marchand
21
Natasha Brown
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22
Brooke Cannon Poindexter
23
Kaitlin Pearl Coghill
24
Heather Pagliarini
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25
M. Flash Clark
26
Emma Block
27
Martha Edwards Beard
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28
Heather Videon
29
Gaynor Kitcher
30
Nancy Schmidt
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31
Verity Di Francesco
32
Catie Meier
33
Court Farber
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34
Chrissy Gibson
35
Rania Ghani
36
Christina Vandermeer-Walker
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37
Alison Jones
38
Danielle Roberto
39
Jessica Augsburger
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40
Laura Kine
41
Jennifer Bailey
42
Sara Carter
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43
Magda Salazar Wallace
44
Catherine Mandras