Raised Without Gender Stereotypes or Raised Without Gender?

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BACKGROUND INFO :
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Five years ago, a couple willing chose to keep their newborn's gender concealed from the rest of the world for the seemingly-pure purpose to protect their child from society's gender stereotypes; however, since he recently started public school, they figured it would be best to personally inform the media of his gender now rather than later. Although the mothers Beck Laxton and Kieran Cooper originally chose to confide the child's gender to few close friends, they did release their child's gender-neutral name right from the start. It has been said that ever since his birth, his mothers have called him "the infant" instead of gender-assigned pronouns such as "him" or "he." And the name they chose was Sasha.

The original article sparked a lot of controversy all over the internet and only until recently did the mothers finally release the gender of their child.

And he is a boy.

However, the question that has buried itself into the minds of society is:
Is Sasha a social experiment gone too far?

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HYPOCRITICAL or LOGICAL? : 
Although the attempt to rid of gender stereotypes is admirable and probably insanely overdue, the couple also revealed a few peculiar rules that Sasha is to live by. Sasha is supposedly free to dress however he pleases, whether it be a hand-me-down from his sister or his brother; however, even though one would assume that the mothers would fairly allow Sasha  to wear anything that catches his eyes and liking, they do not allow him to wear anything that can be considered "hyper-masculine" - like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. They do, however, allow him to wear a shiny pink girl's swimsuit because they believe that all children enjoy sparkly articles of clothing (aren't shiny pink girls' swimsuits objectively considered "hyper-feminine"? And I've seen plenty of skull shirts marketed towards female children, too...Where has this family been?).
 

I digress.

So is this odd way of raising a child logical or hypocritical because it seems as though the mothers are denying Sasha anything that can be considered  too masculine, but are completely fine with him wearing anything that can be considered feminine or possibly even too feminine.
One may wonder:
Are they really trying to fight gender stereotypes or are they trying to force their son to be a girl?

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JESSICA SAYS:

This is my first blog post ever, so perhaps it is slightly lengthy for blogging standards, but I hope you all enjoyed it, regardless. Do let me know if it should be shortened.

ANYWAY.

I do admire the intention, however, I cannot help but feel as though this child will need a severe amount of counseling later in life when he realizes he has identity issues thanks to being a publicly-displayed social experiment considered an "it" all his life. Also, I find it hypocritical that these women forbid clothing that can be viewed as masculine, but happily allow their son to wear clothing smothered in hues of pinks and purples - something that I would assume most view as being feminine. How is this his free choice? What if HE wanted to wear the skull shirt? Either he can wear everything he wants to or he can't. There shouldn't be any gray areas.

TO THE READERS:

• So, what do you think? Is it right to raise a child to be neither a boy nor girl, but instead, an "it"?
• What do you think will happen when Sasha goes through grade-school and realizes how different he is compared to his peers?
• Even though this is a couple from the UK, what do you think would happen if couples in the US decided to start raising their kids this way? 

Also, please refrain from expressing any opinions that can be insulting or cruel to the gay community.

~xxj