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I read this article on yahoo! news. The article is about a 4 month old child named Storm. Storm's parents have chosen to keep the child's gender a secret from the world so that in growing Storm may choose who he or she wants to be. Did you get that? They aren't treating the child as a boy or girl so the child can decide later on who they want to become. I can't imagine not treating your child as the boy or girl they were born as. It seems to me it is freak parenting such as this that causes the person in the cube next to you to sport a pink crew cut, the season's newest wedges, camouflage pants while running their Jack Hawk 2000 across their tongue. The kid in question has two other siblings - Jazz and Koi - who are also allowed to shop in either the boy's or girl's section and whether or not they cut their hair. Thank goodness they are all home schooled otherwise they would be the target of some playground bullying. Not to mention the father is a teacher.

I get the idea of be who you want to become such as a teacher, mother, astronaut, used car salesman, shade tree mechanic but having to decide early on in life if you want to be a boy or girl just sounds difficult, confusing. What happens when a 16 year old boy wants to use the ladies' restroom? Or when a 12 year old gets her "monthly friend" but had chosen earlier on to be a boy?

Am I the only one who thinks this is a completely distorted way of raising a child? Generally when there is a mid-wife in the picture, the parents are freaks anyway.