Keeping the Gender of a 2-Year-Old Secret - NYTimes.com

2010-11-06T01:31:19+00:00

I like the part where they call gender an "artificial construct." People don't actually believe this do they? Honsestly. I'm not even trolling.

kateweb · 2010-11-05T20:04:07+00:00

let a child chose thier own identity is a way to go, but unfortunately it's not easy to do and a 2 year old is not capable of telling if a skirt "is not ok for boy" not that I think that but a large proportion of society thinks that.
with the David Reimer case He was forced to be a gender that he was not , he was born male raised given a sex change and raised female but indeed had male tendencies.

melb22 · 2010-11-06T02:57:58+00:00

I wrote a short piece on this when it first hit the news. Swedish social policy is based on the idea that our sex is a social construct and should be made not to matter. For that reason they also allow female topless bathing in some public pools because they believe that female breasts and male breasts should be treated the same. And so on.

Personally, I think the attempt to repress or deny sex distinctions is both oppressive and unscientific. It's better to find the more positive aspects of a masculine and feminine identity and attempt to harmonise them as much as possible.

SibilantSounds · 2010-11-05T19:00:44+00:00

sounds like an interesting social experiment, especially for those who advocate a gender neutral society. That being said to this extreme may be unhealthy for the child, cant wait to see what happens

veryberry · 2010-11-05T20:20:45+00:00

this seems very interesting. I dont really think this will affect the child as much as help him. I think the child will be a more open-minded person. It will be a lot more comfortable choosing sports and interests or so I think

collymolotov · 2010-11-07T15:51:52+00:00

This has to be the most disgusting example of "parenting" I've ever read about. It defies all rationality. They are ensuring that 1) their kid grows up with a terribly confused sexuality 2) that he'll be a social pariah growing up and 3) will have gender issues of his own throughout his life.

I am speechless that this is legal to do where they live or that family/friends would advocate this. I'm also amazed the expert they consulted didn't condemn the notion out of hand.

Liverotto · 2010-11-06T11:00:33+00:00

they made this decision in the hope of freeing their child from the artificial construct of gender.

Feminists are dumber than Christians and stupider than Communists.

We need to start persecuting these people before it is too late.

Title	Keeping the Gender of a 2-Year-Old Secret - NYTimes.com
Author	thetrollking
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Date	November 5, 2010 6:16 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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