Planet Child: Are Boys and Girls That Different? | Up Close

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In the third and final edition, twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken set out to explore how children develop a sense of their own identity and whether girls are really different to boys. For generations, boys and girls have been treated differently and knew from an early age what was expected of them. Life today is very different, and rules around gender are changing. We meet seven-year-old Uaakhuihe, of the Namibian Himba people, where, from an early age, boys and girls are taught different skills to prepare them for the very different roles they will have to take on as men and women. The Van Tulleken's take a group of British under seven's away from their families to an island in the middle of the River Thames to take part in some experiments to find out what it means to be a girl or a boy. Twin sisters Tyiana and Taiya shock themselves and the boys in a fairground competition and four-year-old American pageant queen Lyndsey has very strong ideas about how she likes to look.