Toronto couple defend move to keep baby's sex secret

[Brisco]

Here's an interesting article that delves more into the lives of this family:

Toronto couple David Stocker & Kathy Witterick raising baby to be genderless - What's On Shenzhen

Here are a couple of snippets from the article:

They called parents who make choices for their children 'obnoxious', instead telling their children to challenge how they're expected to look and act based on their sex.

Jazz, fortunately, was out of earshot on a recent trip to a park when a family friend overheard two little girls saying they did not want to play with a 'girl-boy'.

And once Mrs Witterick was forced to rush him out of a store when a saleswoman refused to sell him a pink leather boa because 'he's a boy'.

Jazz was old enough to start school last September but chose to stay home. Both children and adults, his mother explained, would 'immediately react with Jazz over his gender' - mainly, the fact he is a little boy who loves the colour pink and wears his hair long.

Both Mrs Witterick and Mr Stocker grew up in very liberal families. They have visited revolutionaries in Mexico and spent weeks in Cuba learning about the Communist revolution.

Mr Stocker is a teacher at a school where lessons are framed by social justice issues. Mrs Witterick is now a stay-at-home mother who practises 'unschooling' - that is, home schooling driven by a child's curiosity rather than a schedule or tests.

I see a very hard life for 1, 2, or maybe all 3 of these children as they grow older. At least 1 or 2 of 'em, and again if not all 3, are going to wish they were "raised normally" as their social life begins to materialize during their teens, twenties, and so on. I foresee 1, 2, and again, maybe all 3, turning against their parents when they realize it was their parents choice to raise them as "outcasts", as "freaks", and as societal oddballs as they were growing up.

I hope at least all 3 get a decent education (which is looking like it's NOT going to happen) so that they can obtain decent paying jobs to pay for all the therapy they are going to need in their adult lives.