I really don't understand the real point of this one. This family wants to raise their child "genderless" until it becomes necessary to make the sex of their child public. The full story is here.
Ok.....why is it such a big deal to be a girl and act like a girl and know that the baby is a girl? Or boy? People get so wound up in gender-roles, I get it, but that doesn't mean you can't be a scrappy girl or a bit butch just because you know you're a girl. I used to be in a skirt, with short hair, running after boys I liked and beating up the ones I didn't. Did that make me friendless and made fun of? Only sometimes, but most of the time I was able to convince a few other girls to join me in my fun.
And this therapist Susan Stiffelman brings up a good point, what about the siblings that know the gender of this baby and are told to keep it a secret? Stiffelman says, "...there's the contradiction that they want to raise their children with a sense of freedom and a lack of restraint in terms of gender expectations and, at the very same time... they are confining their other children."
Is this a family reaching for 15 minutes of fame and doing so using their child? Possibly. Is this a human/social experiment with their own child? Definitely. And to me that is just wrong. They are experimenting with their child's happiness and thrusting this newborn into the public view in an unfavorable way. As parents we're meant to protect our children, not force them from day one into the limelight with a giant question mark.
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