Lefty parents refuse to impose sex on baby

[trophyshy 7083]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13581835

 

Toronto couple defend move to keep baby's sex secret

 

Mr Stocker and Ms Witterick say the decision to keep Storm's sex a secret was "a tribute to freedom"

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.

[Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1]

Nastinal Service

[Meenzer 15561]

You get awesome parents like this and then you get the lunatic fringe...

[Tom 14013]

What's wrong with young people needing guidance?

 

''Identity'' is a much something that attaches itself to a person as a person can feel the need to attack his/herself to their identity. For a person to deviate from the norm and make decisions, the norm has to be there in the first place.

 

This is going to end badly

[trophyshy 7083]

I think it is evil of the parents to assume the baby is a human child, they should leave it in a pool of mud until it decides what sort of creature it wants to be.

 

And fuck them for sending out statements in English, assuming I, or any of us, have the capacity to understand their inherited language. Don't force your heritage on me you fucking Nazis.

[trophyshy 7083]

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[luckyluke 2]

Ironic that Storm Stoker sounds like a porn star's name.

[LeazesMag 0]

 

poor little bastards

 

I didn't know Rob was a yank ?

[Billy Castell 0]

I think I'm in agreement with LeasesMag for once about the parents-they're absolute tools. However, if they want to go down that route, Trophyshy has shown that they have not gone far enough.

 

Tom's point is also interesting. Fast Forward 20 years or more, and will we have a person with no personality at all, like a machine? Or someone entirely self absorbed in finding their 'true self'? or someone like Peter Sellars who thought he had no self, and would become the film characters he played for long periods of time?

[WordPlay 0]

This is weird beyond weird