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I'm not sure how really "new" the basis of this thinking is as many experiments were tried in the 60's/70's trying to show there was no difference between boys and girls. But, of course, at that time we didn't have an Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug Free Schools who wrote the foreward to a book called, "Que*ring Elementary Education," which advocates the promotion of gender neutrality in our public schools.
If you agree with the psychiatric community as quoted in this article that,
"To raise a child not as a boy or a girl is creating, in some sense, a freak. It sets them up for not knowing who they are,’ says Dr Eugene Beresin, a child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital."
or
"Dr Harold Koplewicz, a leading U.S. child psychiatrist, said...‘When children are born, they’re not a blank slate. We do have male brains and female brains,’ he says. ‘There’s a reason why boys do more rough and tumble play; there’s a reason why girls have better language development skills.’"
...then, we have something to be concerned about as this expanding trend starts to touch on all our children within the public school environment as seen in examples pointed out in this article as well as seen in California's mandatory Program to Deal with Gender and Sexual Orientation like the one below where children as young as five years old are taught that there are more than two genders.
"For example, some boys can act like girls; some girls can have boy body parts; and some biological boys feel like a girl inside their hearts, he said."
"It turns out that there are not just two options," he said.
I wouldn't call two parents in Canada raising their kid gender-neutral a trend.
But I don't think it's a good idea. I think society needs to be understanding of transgender people but I don't think that not telling a child (or anyone) its sex is not a good move. I definitely think that males and females are wired differently.
I'm not sure how really "new" the basis of this thinking is as many experiments were tried in the 60's/70's trying to show there was no difference between boys and girls. But, of course, at that time we didn't have an Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug Free Schools who wrote the foreward to a book called, "Que*ring Elementary Education," which advocates the promotion of gender neutrality in our public schools.
If you agree with the psychiatric community as quoted in this article that,
"To raise a child not as a boy or a girl is creating, in some sense, a freak. It sets them up for not knowing who they are,’ says Dr Eugene Beresin, a child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital."
or
"Dr Harold Koplewicz, a leading U.S. child psychiatrist, said...‘When children are born, they’re not a blank slate. We do have male brains and female brains,’ he says. ‘There’s a reason why boys do more rough and tumble play; there’s a reason why girls have better language development skills.’"
...then, we have something to be concerned about as this expanding trend starts to touch on all our children within the public school environment as seen in examples pointed out in this article as well as seen in California's mandatory Program to Deal with Gender and Sexual Orientation like the one below where children as young as five years old are taught that there are more than two genders.
"For example, some boys can act like girls; some girls can have boy body parts; and some biological boys feel like a girl inside their hearts, he said."
"It turns out that there are not just two options," he said.
Honestly, I don't believe in raising a child gender-neutral, however, if my daughter grows up to be more tomboyish, then that's her perogative. I'll support her no matter what she chooses (within the law, of course).
That being said, while gender is distinct, gender roles are extinct.
My children are going to grow up with the correct expectations of their gender. My daughters are going to be female and my sons are going to be male. None of this gender-neutral crap
"... raising a “genderless” child is a new trend among progressives who believe a child has a “right to choose” what he or she “wants to be.”
Parents have a responsibility to raise their children with respect to the gender they were born with.
Once a child matures into adulthood it is then their prerogative to live however they wish.
My children are going to grow up with the correct expectations of their gender. My daughters are going to be female and my sons are going to be male. None of this gender-neutral crap
Hope that doesn't blow up in your face.
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