These parents are raising a child without telling it or anybody else its gender
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@My_nameaintearl
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A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.
Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have been widely criticised for imposing their ideology on four-month-old Storm.
The family were the subject of a recent profile in the Toronto Star newspaper.
In an e-mail, Ms Witterick wrote that the idea that "the whole world must know what is between the baby's legs is unhealthy, unsafe, and voyeuristic".
Ms Witterick, 38, and Mr Stocker, 39, have also been criticised for the manner in which they are raising their two sons Jazz, five, and Kio, two.
The boys are encouraged to choose their own clothing and hairstyles - even if that means wearing girls' clothes - and to challenge gender norms. Jazz wears his hair in long braids, and the boys are "almost exclusively assumed to be girls," Mr Stocker told the Toronto Star.
The child's grandparents do not know Storm's sex, the Toronto Star reported, and have grown weary of explaining the situation, but are supportive.
In an e-mail to the Associated Press news agency, Ms Witterick, a stay-at-home mother, said a four-month-old infant was still learning to recognise him or herself, and said it was inappropriate to impose a gender identity on the child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13581835
Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have been widely criticised for imposing their ideology on four-month-old Storm.
The family were the subject of a recent profile in the Toronto Star newspaper.
In an e-mail, Ms Witterick wrote that the idea that "the whole world must know what is between the baby's legs is unhealthy, unsafe, and voyeuristic".
Ms Witterick, 38, and Mr Stocker, 39, have also been criticised for the manner in which they are raising their two sons Jazz, five, and Kio, two.
The boys are encouraged to choose their own clothing and hairstyles - even if that means wearing girls' clothes - and to challenge gender norms. Jazz wears his hair in long braids, and the boys are "almost exclusively assumed to be girls," Mr Stocker told the Toronto Star.
The child's grandparents do not know Storm's sex, the Toronto Star reported, and have grown weary of explaining the situation, but are supportive.
In an e-mail to the Associated Press news agency, Ms Witterick, a stay-at-home mother, said a four-month-old infant was still learning to recognise him or herself, and said it was inappropriate to impose a gender identity on the child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13581835
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_______________________@My_nameaintearl wrote: »defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret
The family were the subject of a recent profile in the Toronto Star newspaper.
Associated Press
BBC
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Spoiler alert: It's another boy.
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Hmmmmm... Now, I wonder what color these people are? What race could they possibly be? I have no clue.
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This is beyond ? ...they are setting that child up for future failure and ridicule.
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Pura~Diabla wrote: »This is beyond ? ...they are setting that child up for future failure and ridicule.
What are you basing this projection on? -
Once they hit puberty, they will be doomed...doomed
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i think its a good idea... let them grow up and be themselves. not what the world wants them to be... if they can make you they can break you.. here in America, they manufacture ppl straight from birth
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@My_nameaintearl wrote: »What are you basing this projection on?
I'm basing it on the world we're living in. Everyone else is going to identify that child for what it really is...a male or a female. -
The kid's ? name is Storm. If they have another one will they name it Gambit? Maybe Magneto. Perhaps Cyclops. These people are ? idiots. That's why I always say that ? granola eaters shouldn't be allowed to procreate. ? hipster morons.
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Straight Cash Homie wrote: »The kid's ? name is Storm. If they have another one will they name it Gambit? Maybe Magneto. Perhaps Cyclops. These people are ? idiots. That's why I always say that ? granola eaters shouldn't be allowed to procreate. ? hipster morons.
I like granola lol... -
Lmao.....................
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That's their business.
Wouldn't happen in my home. -
I read about this yesterday..
i just thought it was a hermaphrodite -
I read about this yesterday..
i just thought it was a hermaphrodite
It never said that in the article. -
is it a boy or girl
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the baby is a boy...and yeah that child is going to be socially ? ... i read this article earlier this week and you can already see the difficulty with their older children saying they don't mind girl clothes, they just don't want to be mistaken for girls and even asking their parents to let people know they're boys...I see what the parents are TRYING to do but what they don't realize is that those children have to learn to live in the world as it is, where gender rules exists, and not in the world that will only exist in their parents home...they're setting their kids up for failure
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I think you're proving the parents' point, blackrain. The kids are deciding for themselves.
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i've officially heard it all.
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@My_nameaintearl wrote: »I think you're proving the parents' point, blackrain. The kids are deciding for themselves.
but they said they still won't enforce gender norms meaning no matter what the kids decide, the parents will treat them as if no decision has ever been made... -
They won't enforce the norms. They will let the kid decide what to wear, what games to play, etc.
Unless you're seeing otherwise somewhere in the articles about this situation, but I'm not. -
@My_nameaintearl wrote: »They won't enforce the norms. They will let the kid decide what to wear, what games to play, etc.
Unless you're seeing otherwise somewhere in the articles about this situation, but I'm not.
They'll be suicidal once they reach puberty... -
The baby is clearly a boy but the fact that his name is Storm is so bad ass.
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no huruma post? shocked..........
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? I'd tell him if I ever met him
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@My_nameaintearl wrote: »A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.
Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have been widely criticised for imposing their ideology on four-month-old Storm.
The family were the subject of a recent profile in the Toronto Star newspaper.
In an e-mail, Ms Witterick wrote that the idea that "the whole world must know what is between the baby's legs is unhealthy, unsafe, and voyeuristic".
Ms Witterick, 38, and Mr Stocker, 39, have also been criticised for the manner in which they are raising their two sons Jazz, five, and Kio, two.
The boys are encouraged to choose their own clothing and hairstyles - even if that means wearing girls' clothes - and to challenge gender norms. Jazz wears his hair in long braids, and the boys are "almost exclusively assumed to be girls," Mr Stocker told the Toronto Star.
The child's grandparents do not know Storm's sex, the Toronto Star reported, and have grown weary of explaining the situation, but are supportive.
In an e-mail to the Associated Press news agency, Ms Witterick, a stay-at-home mother, said a four-month-old infant was still learning to recognise him or herself, and said it was inappropriate to impose a gender identity on the child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13581835
'Society' will teach them what gender they should identify with based on what they look like so while I respect the sentiment, it's pointless. They might be setting them up for serious conflict and rejection with/from their peers.
