Parents Who Understand

As much as I am happy about the increasing number of my friends becoming proud parents of babies, wishing this and that for their unborn son or daughter, I get extremely squeamish when I see them siccing obvious gender stereotypes.  The pink clothes *must* go with the girls, the blue clothes *must* go with the boys.  The son will get the toy truck, the daughter will get the doll.

So I was extremely personally gratified to read this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110524/ts_yblog_thelookout/parents-keep-childs-gender-under-wraps

Finally, some cis-gendered parents who get the gender role versus sex and who do not push conformative gender roles on their babies.  Unfortunately, a lot of the comments on this article are ignorant.  If percentages play correct, 9999/10000 times, the baby, if born with boy genitals, will also be masculine and male.  Same if the baby is born with girl genitals.  But I am glad these parents have that sensitivity.

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