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And that's similar to what's going on with the people who are criticizing these parents in the newspapers who decided to raise their children as genderless, saying they are placing their own beliefs on their children etc. etc. These parents are assuming that every child is heterosexual and falls distinctly into a certain gender by default and that that default needs to be maintained. They, then, come to believe that raising a child as genderless endangers that supposedly "natural" default. Like others have said, it is all about the comfort level of adults, not that of young children. Edit: and that makes me think as well as how people view raising a child as genderless is introducing children to the idea of being genderless prematurely... But it seems the whole argument is based on maintaining their own gendered worldview. How is it that we live in a world where enforcing gendered norms on children is not seen as "sexualization" or "inappropriate," yet introducing them to the concept of non-gender or a fluid gender or perhaps ignoring gender entirely is seen as "inappropriate"? It's almost like society fetishizes anything that is not the "norm." |
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