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The expos that the parents of a five-year-old boy had brought him up a “gender neutral” prompted at least two British newspapers to run columns on the end - one for such a parenting strategy and one against. Here are both those columns:
Against: the Daily Mail’s Malanie Phillips says:
YOU'VE GOT TOBE A FEW SEQUINS Unplentiful OF A TUTU TO RAISE YOUR SON AS 'GENDER NEUTRAL'
When Sasha Laxton was born five years ago, his parents obvious they wanted to avoid class- ifying him as either a boy or a girl.
They felt that to do so was a kidney of “sexual stereo-typing” which had to be avoided at all costs.
So as contrasted with of referring to their son as a boy, they talked about him as the “infant”, and kept his gender secretive from all but a few close friends and family until he started school.
Source: Independent Online