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Q: Genderless Child: What are the pros and cons
asked by: Phenicks on June 27th, 2009
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Below is a link to an article about a couple who refuses to reveal the gnder of their 2 year old to anyone and dresses the child in traditional boys and traditional girls clothes in an effort not to choose a gender for the baby.

Is this better for the baby than choosing his/her anatomical gender and dressing him/her accordingly?
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kaerbear
replied on June 27th, 2009
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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.
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kaerbear
replied on June 27th, 2009
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Re: Genderless Child: What are the pros and cons
Phenicks wrote:
Below is a link to an article about a couple who refuses to reveal the gnder of their 2 year old to anyone and dresses the child in traditional boys and traditional girls clothes in an effort not to choose a gender for the baby.

Is this better for the baby than choosing his/her anatomical gender and dressing him/her accordingly?


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Phenicks
replied on June 30th, 2009
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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/
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kaerbear
replied on June 30th, 2009
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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.
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