{"id":13146,"date":"2011-05-21T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13146"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:33:08","slug":"toronto-parents-keep-their-childs-gender-a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-parents-keep-their-childs-gender-a-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto parents keep their child\u2019s gender a secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentcentral.ca\/parent\/babiespregnancy\/babies\/article\/995112--parents-keep-child-s-gender-secret\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo it\u2019s a boy, right?\u201d a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, her four month old baby, Storm, strapped to her chest in a carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Each week the woman asks the same question about the baby with the squishy cheeks and feathery blond hair.<\/p>\n<p>Witterick smiles, opens her arms wide, comments on the sunny spring day, and keeps walking.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s used to it. The neighbours know Witterick and her husband, David Stocker, are raising a genderless baby. But they don\u2019t pretend to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s nothing ambiguous about Storm\u2019s genitalia, they aren\u2019t telling anyone whether their third child is a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>Witterick and Stocker believe they are giving their children the freedom to choose who they want to be, unconstrained by social norms about males and females.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the time this poor child is old enough to \u201cchoose who he wants to be\u201d, he will also be old enough to realise that he has been the victim of a grotesque experiment by parents more interested in sacrificing him on the altar of their crackbrained ideology than in loving him.<\/p>\n<p>If he has any sense he will get away from them as far as he can as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: \u201cSo it\u2019s a boy, right?\u201d a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, her four month old baby, Storm, strapped to her chest in a carrier. Each week the woman asks the same question about the baby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-parents-keep-their-childs-gender-a-secret\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[655,2152,975],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-confusion","tag-david-stocker","tag-gender-confusion","tag-kathy-witterick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}