Canadian Parents Get "Genderless" ID for Their Baby

[GigaBuist]

I'm basically about as friendly as you can get to the LGBTQ circle but even I have no idea what "non-binary genderqueer trans person" means without really thinking about it and even then I'm kind of guessing.

Even if the parent is trans it's silly for them to insist on a gender neutral ID.  They should be fully aware that we're basically 99.99% likely to identify our gender with our natural sex.  If they're a statistically fluke make that an issue when it becomes apparent to them if it ever does.  It probably won't.

[Hawkmoon]

I actually meant the adult.

Yes ... the one wearing the hearing protection..

[makattak]

At that age, it could go either way. That's why they make those cute little headbands for girls. Emily had some real adorable ones.

Exactly. I know some parents get offended when you call their little girl a boy (or vice versa), but babies have no features that differentiate the sexes (outside of their diapers, that is.)

It's puberty that makes the obvious outward physical changes. Until then, it's clothes and hairstyle for outward differentiation.

HOWEVER, (back to the original post), trying to claim that they are, therefore, sexless, is not only foolish, it is harmful to the child.

But hey, what are kids but the means by which parents can play out all their own issues on them?

[RoadKingLarry]

These people (notice how skillfully I avoided the use of "they") want a word that doesn't carry a gender association, yet for a single person these same people studiously avoid using the simple, accepted, gender neutral pronoun indicative of a single entity: "it."

The time has come to mount the resistance. We need to shame the it-phobes of the world. Demand equal rights for the its!

I can think of a whole slew of gender neutral titles for them.

dipshit
dumbass
moron
idiot
*expletive deleted*tard
twatwaffle
ahole
*expletive deleted*it-for-brains

I coud go on all day...

[makattak]

I can think of a whole slew of gender neutral titles for them.

dipshit
dumbass
moron
idiot
*expletive deleted*tard
twatwaffle
*expletive deleted*hole
*expletive deleted*it-for-brains

I coud go on all day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLA28umt9iw&t=1m55s

[lee n. field]

I can think of a whole slew of gender neutral titles for them.

dipshit
dumbass
moron
idiot
*expletive deleted*tard
twatwaffle
*expletive deleted*hole
*expletive deleted*it-for-brains

I coud go on all day...

I think "that" is probably a good pronoun.

[Firethorn]

I was thinking about this, and remembered something from earlier renaissance times.

Basically, back in the day, all babies were kept in dresses for the first period of their life.  Easier cleanup and such.

Putting the boys in britches was an important time for them.

[makattak]

I was thinking about this, and remembered something from earlier renaissance times.

Basically, back in the day, all babies were kept in dresses for the first period of their life.  Easier cleanup and such.

Putting the boys in britches was an important time for them.

Even further "back in the day" everyone wore "dresses." Britches themselves were an important time.

[RevDisk]

I was thinking about this, and remembered something from earlier renaissance times.

Basically, back in the day, all babies were kept in dresses for the first period of their life.  Easier cleanup and such.

Putting the boys in britches was an important time for them.

Romans conquered the world while not wearing pants. Still doesn't mean that the person in the photo wouldn't have been considered a very strange person back in that time period as well.

Again, I support a person's decision to be weird. A person has a right to be weird without government interference. People do not and should not have a right to make the government enforce their particular brand of weird on others. Doesn't matter if you have one weird person or a million weird people. Logic should stand.

[RoadKingLarry]

Romans conquered the world while not wearing pants. Still doesn't mean that the person in the photo wouldn't have been considered a very strange person back in that time period as well.

Again, I support a person's decision to be weird. A person has a right to be weird without government interference. People do not and should not have a right to make the government enforce their particular brand of weird on others. Doesn't matter if you have one weird person or a million weird people. Logic should stand.

Nor should government subsidize their particular flavor of mental illness and force the taxpayer to fund it.