The main purpose of this essay has been to find out about children’s conception of gender.In order to achieve knowledge on the subject and to be able to capture the pupil’s own thoughts in a natural way, we set up a play where we switched the existing gender order.We then performed this play to school children in year 3 and 6. The purpose of the play was that it was supposed to work as a starting point for the pupil’s thoughts on the subject and therefore we interviewed 12 pupils after the play to capture their reactions. Our questions were the following: What reactions were raised among the pupils when they, through the play,saw the general perception of the gender order change? Are we able to see a difference in reaction depending on sex and age? Did the children identify with the characters and if so, how? What were the pupil’s own thoughts about gender? Our conclusion of the interviews is that most of the pupils reacted on the fact that the gender order was switched and that the reactions were stronger among the girls than among the boys. After having examined the way in which the pupils identified with the characters in the play it seems like they identify with their gender not with their sex. Furthermore we can perceive that according to our research, clothes interests and behaviour seem to be important factors when it comes to determining your sex. In the pupils reality the gender norm seems to be deeply rooted and the pupils react in a negative way when someone breaks the ruling gender norm. At the same time there is a certain amount of “gender blindness” in both sexes to at all apprehend or see that a gender order exists. In spite of this we have also come to a few positive conclusions in our empirical studies. We notice that pupils already at a young age more or less can see the connections between the gender coded choices they make and the demands and expectations from society. This has given us, as teachers to be, a new insight in from which starting point gender work could be pursued and understood. We have also been strengthened in our view that it is possible to recreate the gender order we have today and in that way reach a more gender equal society.