Today, via the Motherlode blog on the New York Times website (love the name), news that there is a two and a half year old child in Sweden named Pop, whose gender the 24-year-old parents of Pop are keeping a secret. From everyone. Except the handful of people who have changed Pop's diaper. Sometimes Pop wears pants, and sometimes a dress, and Pop's parents plan to keep this up for as long as possible, in order that Pop might "avoid being forced into a specific gender mould."
Holy cow.
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So, other than "holy cow," how do you feel about that?
Oh God. I feel that there is little more I can say that isn't thoroughly covered by the comments on the NYT site where it is first cited. I think Pop is going to be screwed up for life, is what I think.
I read a book about that in the sixth grade. "Are you a little boy or a little girl?" "I'm a little It."
It was a children's book with lots of pictures and very awesome. I loved San Francisco schools! Funny enough, I also read "The Child Called It" in sixth grade...
http://tiltedworld.org/2009/07/22/boy-or-girl-x-a-fabulous-childs-story-by-lois-gould/
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