Have you heard about the Canadian couple who aren't telling anyone what the gender of their baby is? Kathy Witterick and David Stocker say they don't want the child, Storm, to be influenced by connotations of pink vs. blue or male vs. female until it can "make up his or her own mind."
A picture accompanying the article shows Storm's brother Jazz talking to him/her. I thought it was Storm's sister -- Jazz has long braided pigtails and had on a decidedly feminine sweater. Storm's goofball parents say they are not sharing Storm's gender as a "tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? . . .)." I agree that Storm is growing up in a messed up world, but he or she is going to be a whole lot more messed up than a kid who has parents without gender identity issues.
"Parents open about all but baby's gender." The Dallas Morning News; May 28, 2011; p. 11A.
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That poor child!
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