According to the article, a Canadian couple isn’t telling whether their 4-month-old baby named Storm is a boy or a girl. They do this have made this choice because they want to raise their baby unconstrained by social norms about males and females.
I understand and agree with Storm’s parents in to a certain extent in the idea to about raisinge an unbiased child about regarding their sexual role in a society. However, I do not agree with the way they use have chosen to achieve their goal. They are not giving Storm the gift of freedom. Rather, the baby will suffer because of the gift. There are two reasons why I believe in this way this is true.
First of all, people tend to be mean to someone who is not ordinary or who does not follow the rules of a society. Each gender is has a kind of rule which distinguishes the biological differences between the people who compose of a society. A genderless or gender-confusing baby is an easy prey for them. It is so obvious that how people will treat this baby. The baby will be classified as “it” and be treated like “it”. The baby won’t belong to any group, and every other person except his/her family will make fun of him/her. It is so such a huge burden to for the baby to put up with endure, and the baby will eventually choose his/her real gender.
Also, a gender is not an object of choice but an inborn inherent characteristic. It is not a matter of someone’s right. There are obvious biological differences between males and females. Maybe the baby can try to choose his/her gender. However, even if the baby chooses a gender which is different from his/her biological sex, what he/she can does is just will be acting. A man can chose to be a woman but cannot give birth to a baby. He/she cannot be the gender which he/she chose to be after all.
For the two reasons I mentioned above that people are cruel to outsiders and a gender is not an object of choice, I insist that the parents should not raise the baby as a genderless one. It is not a gift to make the one a child happy but a punishment to torture the one that will harm a child.
As a whole, I think that may the Canadian couple just do that to show up in the news! But, I have a curious question, do they call their kid on his/her real pronoun while they are home and alone or they don't???
ReplyDeleteAs you explained in your essay, I think the people around the child may get confused . Also, the child him / her self might act different then it supposed to do. That defiantly will effect on his \ her health. My question, Do you think it will effect the child future on negative way ?
ReplyDeleteVery clear and insightful reaction. I really appreciate the evidence-based tone that you adopted to support your ideas. The clear organization and argument structure also made your views easy to follow. Great job!
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