I think it would be better in an ideal world where the child could be in a community where these things weren't considered strange. You can wish and you can work toward changing gender relations in society but you have to be careful that you are not martyring your child's emotional wellness in the process.

Was the link removed or did you forget to post it?

I *thought* I posted the link but hopefully I didn't because I'd hate ot believe that ehealth would remove it. Here it is though:

http://www.thelocal.se/20232/20090623/

I guess I just don't understand why they make their child the subject of this "experiment" and social statement that they are making. While I believe that gender is socially constructed to a degree, I also believe that there are biological factors at work, so taking it too far could end up hurting the child emotionally and psychically in the long run. I hope this isn't the case. I hope, also, that the parents don't have too many expectations of the child in light of their own beliefs about gender and that the child won't be made to feel like a disappointment if they decide that they want to express their biological gender or choose to live a more traditional gender role. All you can do is hope that the parents have the right motives, those being the motives that put the child's emotional and mental well being ahead of their own need to protest social constructs. This child does have to be a part of that same society, after all.