Posted on 01/20/2012 9:13:05 AM PST by maggief
A couple who concealed the sex of their child and raised it as gender neutral for five years have finally revealed - its a boy.
Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, decided not to reveal baby Sashas gender in the hope it would let its real personality shine through.
They referred to it as 'the infant' and only allowed their child to play with gender-neutral toys in their television-free home.
During the first five years of his life, Sasha has alternated between girls and boys outfits, leaving friends, playmates and relatives guessing.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Beck, pictured, was resolute and encouraged Sasha to play with dolls to hide his masculinity
Looks like a girl.
Im A Boy
(Pete Townshend)
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and Im a boy
My name is Bill and Im a headcase
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend ages taking hairpins from my hair
Chorus 1
Im a boy, Im a boy
But my ma wont admit it
Im a boy, Im a boy
But if I say I am I get it
Put your frock on Jean Marie
Plait your hair Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy
Chorus 1
I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the stream
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud
Chorus 2
Im a boy, Im a boy
But my ma wont admit it
Im a boy, Im a boy, Im a boy
Im a boy, Im a boy, Im a boy, Im a boy
Im a boy, Im a boy, Im__ a__ boy__
Dear God could these lunatics be more stupid? Some one arrest them for child abuse and take that poor boy into a good home
Dear God could these lunatics be more stupid? Some one arrest them for child abuse and take that poor boy into a good home
What the hell is wrong with people?
There was a PBS show several decades ago about our culture creating the gender persona in boys and girls. In this study of several families, they tried having the boys play with girl’s toys and the girls play with boys toys, and things like that.
There was a follow-up show more than a decade later where they interviewed the parents involved in the study. They said that the boys insisted on being “boy-like” no matter what toys you gave them, and the girls were equally hard wired.
And this was a liberal group on PBS!
I kind of think they were wishing he were a girl and giving him every opportunity to prefer being that gender.
Looks a little like a Down syndrome baby - but looking at the mother I can tell he is just British. ;)
—Beck, pictured, was resolute and encouraged Sasha to play with dolls to hide his masculinity —
Why, exactly, would parents do this to their own child?
Plus, look at the way 'it' is dressed.
Make the claim that they raised the child GENDER-FREE a lie.
I thank dear God in Heaven every day for my WWII generation parents and the bedrock of their upbringing. It brings tears to my eyes thinking about this poor child and the monsters that have experimented with him.
People who experiment on children should be shot.
“Looks a little like a Down syndrome baby - but looking at the mother I can tell he is just British. ;)”
hahh haa < I rarely spew coffee after reading quotes, but this got me going!!!!!
British, the new “retard”!!!
TIME already released the shocking (to them) article - big cover article - that boys and girls are different! No really, they really are different!
No kidding. We said that all along and the libs said nope it’s all conditioning and learned and this evil paternalistic/maternalistic role modeling, bla bla bla.
How do you raise a child gender neutral. Did they not tell him the reasons his equipment was different than his two mommies? Did they keep his gender a secret from him or just friends and family? Sick chicks indeed.
They are now healthy productive God-fearing loving fathers and husbands.
I always have to go back to the then-president of Harvard, Larry Summers.
In some talk/speech, he floated the possibility that there just might be a difference between boys and girls, and some female biologist at MIT almost suffered a heart attack at that "concept".
It also got Summers (along with his idea that "professors" such as Cornel West should actually teach, since he's being paid to do so) booted out by the outcry from the humanities faculty.
Great ... another David Bowie.
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