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”I imagined a scenario where this wasn't the case: where, after infancy, a child exhibits male and female characteristics in equal measure.

How does the non-liberal parent deal with that kind of thing?”

I’m not a parent so maybe my opinion doesn’t count for much, but I have an opinion on this. I see very little harm in allowing both sexes to explore what may be considered typical gender roles of the other. That is, let girls take apart their toys and play with trucks. Don’t worry about teaching boys how to cook or sew or play with the doll house.

I do feel the line must be drawn at physical appearance. Letting your little one dress like a transvestite will only lead to problems. If they look like a freak then they will be treated like a freak and grow up thinking they are a freak. Simply trying to tell society to not pick on the freak is not a viable solution. Bullying and such is part of the way we establish social hierarchy and something that goes to the primal core of behavior and can’t simply be stopped because we pass some kind of bully law.

In other words, I don’t think there is anything wrong with letting little boys and girls do things that are considered boy or girl activities. At worst, each may learn a new and useful skill. BUT, it’s wrong IMO to let a little boy dress and play like a girl and then reinforce the idea that they are a girl in a boy’s body.

It seems to me that there is a hidden agenda to blur the lines between genders to force confusion of sexual identity. That is, if you can get a boys gender shifted far enough towards the female side then you can convince him his sexual orientation must follow (the inverse for girls, but this seems to be less of an issue). Therein lays the deception and peril insofar as gender blending is concerned.

BUT, it’s wrong IMO to let a little boy dress and play like a girl and then reinforce the idea that they are a girl in a boy’s body.

Bingo, and

It seems to me that there is a hidden agenda to blur the lines between genders to force confusion of sexual identity.

Bingo.

I have empathy for Joe Lunchpail parents who may find themselves in this situation, but I have no empathy at all, and perhaps even some contempt, for parents who deliberately set this agenda and create this environment for their kids. It's wholly against nature. I've seen very liberal parents very chagrinned when they tried to get their boys to play with, say, Barbies - and the boys ended up ripping the heads off of the dolls and then using the headless bodies as weapons.

Nature, it seems, knows what the Hell She's doing.