Raised as they/them: Young children allowed to choose their own gender | 60 Minutes Australia

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It’s not at all unusual, in fact it’s often quite lovely when new parents coo that their baby is the cutest and cleverest one ever born. But early in their lives do small children have big enough brains to make the biggest decisions? Like whether they’re a boy or a girl? A growing group of mums and dads think they do and are embracing what is known as “gender creative parenting”. The parents are deliberately keeping the sex of their babies top secret because they say the children themselves should be free to decide who they are.
And as Amelia Adams discovers, that means the little ones are being raised not as baby boys or baby girls, but as theybies.
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