Does hiding baby’s sex engender freedom or cross the line?
It is nothing if not an unorthodox approach to child rearing: A Toronto couple says it is trying to raise a genderless child, refusing to reveal baby Storm’s sex to encourage a more neutral approach to the infant.
Hiding the four-month-old’s sex from the outside world is a “tribute to freedom and choice” that they hope will let Storm grow up unfettered by the values of others, Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have been quoted as saying.
Experts, however, question whether the odd experiment will work or be good for the baby, and note that gender identity is a complex, mysterious force that has at least as much to do with biological factors present at birth as the person’s social interactions. (Photo illustration: James McMurtrie/Getty Images/Thinkstock)
Barbara Kay: A child’s biology is not a matter of choiceWow, Barbara Kay, filled with fail as usual.
*Warning: Kay’s opinion piece is full of cissexism.*
One day people will realize that sex and gender are two vastly different categories and that this kind of thing would be pointless if we didn’t assume that the presence of boobs or a dick immediately identified a person’s gender. Because it doesn’t, really not at all. Gender is a choice; most people just assume they can’t make it.
