The first few pages of the assigned chapter on gender inequality explains how to distinguish between a person's "sex" and a person's "gender." While a person is born with certain physical characteristics that determine his or her sex, gender is a label society puts on each one of us. The idea is that the two genders are not as different biologically as we may have been led to believe. While reading the whole biological versus sociological debate, I was immediately reminded of an article I had read earlier this year.
The article (http://www.parenting.com/blogs/show-and-tell/christina-parentingcom/gender-neutral-parenting) talks about a couple who were able to keep their child's gender a secret for 5 years. They finally had to reveal the child's gender when they enrolled "it" in school. The school would not let them leave the gender box blank on the admissions forms.
While I was searching for the exact article that I remember reading, I actually came across a couple of other recent cases just like this one. It seems like there are some parents out there willing to take the risk and see what the outcome of such an "experiment" would be.
I say, why not? No harm done, right? I mean, if or until that child is bullied in school, I think it's a really cool idea and I applaud those daring parents. I don't know if I'm progressive enough to try it, though!
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