Hi everyone,
I believe some people are raising their children without any gender based identities. This is known as being 'gender-creative'.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220929-the-parents-raising-their-children-without-gender*************
As Gabriella Martenson prepared for the birth of her first child, she came to a decision. She wouldn’t tell her child if they’d been born a girl or a boy,
“I wanted them to be who they want to be. I don't want to decide that for them,” says Martenson, who was 30 and living in her home city, Stockholm, when she had her first child. “[It’s] just as I don't want to decide what they grow up to do, or who they decide to love or live with.”
......he says “increasing numbers of parents wish to give their child the space psychologically and emotionally to fully express who they are by minimising the conscious and unconscious impact that gender bias can have on a child
Markus Tschannen, a part-time writer, who is embracing a gender-neutral parenting approach from a German-speaking area of Switzerland, says he would like to identify his children with a gender-neutral pronoun such as ‘they’, however this currently doesn’t exist in the German language.
“Being gender-creative parents, we deliberately use names with all three grammatical genders,” he says. “This comes with the advantage that they can experience what feels best for them before deciding on a preferred pronoun,” he explains. “We basically wanted to give them more options than a society that tries to put children in a gender-based mould early on.”
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I think that all this messes around with the minds and personalities of the children. Nature and nurture are not two different things. They work together and complement one another. There is no such things as allowing the children to 'choose' the gender that they are comfortable with. If we don't direct the mind and preferences in a specific direction....the gene expression could get messed up.
Any views?
Sriram
