I can respect parents that don't want their little girl wearing only pink or their little boy wearing only blue. A little bit of gender neutrality is a good thing -- not all little girls need to play with dolls, not all little boys need to love dinosaurs, bugs, or trucks.
But I've read about this baby in the link (his/her name is Storm) and the grandparents don't even know if they have a granddaughter or grandson. That is taking the concept of gender-neutrality WAY too far.
Parents Want Baby to Grow Up Genderless: Progressive or Pathetic?
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Top Opinion
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Epistemically Justified -- BN7 2011/05/31 15:07:46
Who the F are YOU to judge them?
I say Neither. I'm a rock-ribbed conservative. But this poor child has no clearly identifiable gender, so the parents-instead of inflicting the WRONG nature on the child, are waiting to see which way this child will lean.
Have some compassion on these parents! They're doing the best they can in a heart breaking situation. And this heartless judgement of them is adding to it.
The child is not an Hermaphrodite, or that WOULD have been news.
In fact, if the child WAS an hermaphrodite, I'd be behind the parents %100
IF this is just some weird new agey gender identity / Social programming BS, I'm with you. THAT is abuse!
If a girl is more tomboy then fine and I've known a few effeminate guys in my life {They are straight} but this whole feminization of boys and blending genders is sickening...
If someone is the way they are it's one thing and should accept people for who they are but I keep seeing parents forcing it on kids.
This is getting bad because countries are raising a bunch of screwed up kids and kids who are wuss' because parents are over protective...
I hate it when people take things way too far!
excepted me i have a friend who is the exact opposite hes a girly guy but we are best friends its all about people excepting people for who they are
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable. - Kahil Gibran
However, the gender neutrality of this child isn't a personal phase; it's parents are raising it- forcing it- to be that way. Going along with your points, the child shouldn't be gender neutral if it doesn't want to be. But the sad part is, is that it's too young to understand right now.
What BS........
Personally i could care less as long as the child is safe and unharmed by the parents choices, same freedom that allows pathetic nut case KKK Members brain wash there children into new generation Neo-Nazi's.
I would love to live in a world where nobody felt pressured to conform to the established traditional gender roles. It seems like the best way to find out what the real differences are between males and females, since I am sure such differences exist, despite having been exaggerated and corrupted into the current universally oppressive expectations.