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Couple Finally Reveals Child's Gender, Five Years After Birth
By Piper Weiss, Shine Staff | Parenting
It's a boy! And he's five. Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, have spent half the decade concealing the gender of their son, Sasha.
"I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping," Laxton said in an interview with the Cambridge News. "Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?"
Laxton, a UK-based web editor, and her partner, Cooper, decided to keep Sasha's sex a secret when he was still in the womb. The birth announcement stated the gender-neutral name of their child, but skipped the big reveal. Up until recently, the couple only told a few close friends and family members that Sasha was a boy and managed to keep the rest of the world in the dark. But now that he's starting school the secret's out.
For years, Becks has been referring to her child, the youngest of three, as "the infant" on her personal blog. But guarding the public from her son's gender was only part of her quest to let her kid just be a kid.
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/couple-finally-reveals-childs-gender-five-years-birth-180300388.html
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Giving the child a complex about their gender would not be a good thing. I say, let people be who they are and say who they are. Pretending someone doesn't have a gender is like pretending to be color blind. It still hurts the people involved.
onpatrol98
(1,989 posts)I pray Sasha is resilient. Children can be so cruel. I hope he has a good school experience.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)And I hope his teachers do their jobs too, for him and all their students.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Like the "rest of the world" really gives a shit?