The Questions Are Many...

Barbara Kay: A child’s biology is not a matter of choice

Children should not be used as guinea pigs in new-aged social experiments.

In 1978, a children’s book was published called X: A Fabulous Child’s Story, about a child with no gender. X liked both football and basket-weaving, ignored schoolyard teasing and ended up as the happiest, most well-adjusted child ever examined by “an impartial team of experts.”

What are the odds of two utopians, married to each other and both blinkered enough to find this unrealistic story so “compelling” they would use it as a template for raising their own child?
Meet one-in-a-trillion Toronto couple Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, parents of Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2 — both acknowledged to be boys — and their four-month-old baby Storm, knowledge of whose sex the parents are withholding because, after reading Lois Gould’s story, “How could we not?” Read More »

* how will "it" decide which public facility to use
* will "it" stand or sit to pee
* will "it" pickup the cheque for dinner with a person whose biology is known
* will "it" subscribe to the NO MEANS NO in relationships
* if "it" starts a family will it expect to celebrate both mother's and father's day

and the list goes on and on and on.....

Updated: Genderless baby debate: Liberating idea or missed chance? 

A Star story about a family raising a child to be genderless set off a firestorm from readers. Heather Mallick and Catherine Porter discuss.