Posted on 01/29/2019 8:06:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Actress Kate Hudson recently revealed that she is raising her daughter "genderless" until her child decides how she wants to identify.
"It doesnt really change my approach, but theres definitely a difference. I think you just raise your kids individually regardless like a genderless [approach]" Hudson, an Oscar-nominated actress said in an interview with AOL.com last week, when asked if raising a girl will change her parenting style. Hudson is also a mom of two boys.
"We still dont know what she's going to identify as," she said of her baby girl, Rani Rose, who was born in October. Pronounced like "Ronnie," she was named after her current boyfriend's father.
At present, the actress said, her daughter is "incredibly feminine in her energy, her sounds and her way."
Hudson is not the only celebrity indicating that she is adopting a or "genderless" approach with regard to parenting.
Singer Pink boasted in 2017 about raising her kids in a "gender-neutral" way, praising the fact that children are having the conversation about gender, after having seen a bathroom sign at a local kindergarten that read "Gender Neutral anybody" and calling it "progress."
The more extreme version of a "genderless" approach to parenting has been called raising "theybies," where parents do not disclose the sex of their child and use plural pronouns "they, them, and their" when addressing them, so the kids can decide for themselves if, when and how they wish to identify. Raising kids this way, their parents say, is to allow them to be free from stereotypes.
In July, liberal commentator Cathy Areu defended the idea on Tucker Carlson's Fox News program, saying that it is fine for parents not to label their kids and that the children can choose for themselves what gender they want to be around age 4. Choosing one's gender is "not a profound life decision," she maintained.
Critics argue that refusing to tell children the truth about their bodies, which declares biological sex both in DNA and in anatomy, is distorting reality. Central to the notion that a child can be raised "genderless" is that biological sex is materially unimportant.
"There's something very particular and intentional about male and female in the created order in the creation narrative in Genesis 1," Jerry Walls, philosophy professor at Houston Baptist University, said in an interview with The Christian Post in July regarding the "theybies" phenomenon.
"And to mess and play around with this is really an assault on something utterly fundamental.
"It's easy to laugh this off as a few zany, fringe people, and maybe that's all it is for the moment. But there's something really serious going on in that fundamental challenge."
He added: "Yes, you can teach little girls to be strong. You can teach little boys to be sensitive, kind, and gentle. You can teach girls to be leaders. Nothing wrong with any of that, and that's perfectly fitting with the creation design. Yet in order to correct what they see as these stereotypes, they're reaching for an extreme measure way out of proportion to the nature of the problem."
RE: ‘We dont know what she’s going to identify as’
Then why use the pronoun “She”?
“We dont know what it’s going to identify as
She will end up not liking It, because they won’t have enough in common... It will end up hating her and writing a book.
Toxic lunatic.
Facebook needs to add another gender option: “abused child”
Entertainers and actors really are the stupidest people on earth. There is a reason various societies throughout history all thought of them as clowns and prostitutes.
I believe the appropriate phrasing would be: We dont know what THEY’RE going to identify as.” SMDH! I’m thinkin’ the dna says female.
Luckily I have the answer, Kate. She's going to identify as a mental patient thanks to your choices.
She likes dolls, pink dresses, flowers? Nature will out....
That poor child has no chance. . .
Goldie Hawn played a dumb blonde on Laugh -IN , Kate is one in real life
How do people this dumb figure out how to copulate?
a third of the genderless-forced children consider
or commit suicide.
... more adrenochrome for the murderers-before-the-fact.
Going to identify as a victim.
Years ago there were t-shirts in circulation that read, “I’m With Stupid”. Sounds fitting for brain dead Kate.
I have two sons and I taught and expected them to be men. They are. That is the way it should be. As such, they have wasted zero nanoseconds trying to figure out what gender they are.
I am running out of patience with the morons who are influencing our culture. Why does ANYBODY listen to ANYTHING these idiot creeps have to say??
Shes “A dedicated follower of fashion”
Since the woman is able to memorize/read off her lines, she is under the false impression that she can actually think.
These radicals criticize the allegedly harmful practice of assigning a gender at birth.
Carried to the extreme, nobody can say they had a baby boy or baby girl. According to these extremists, we have to wait for these kids to grow up and see how they identify. Nobody can be called a boy or girl. Because after all, the child may grow up and identify as the other sex.
Heck someone’s baby boy may grow up to identity as a transsexual wanting to be female, but also identity as lesbian. So we have to wait and see what they decide.
Anybody else think this is utter nonsense?
Yet because we live in a politically correct world, we are supposed to be open and non judgemental about all of this.
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