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 doesn’t really change my approach, but there’s 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 don’t 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."
Doesn’t she like just being a hot model ?
That’s not ENOUGH attention ?
Geesh!
If you think babies are born either straight or gay but aren’t born either male or female...you might be a Democrat. :)
“(cis female)”. Sorry, m-d, a lot of us do not know what this means and are not going to look it up.
Who the HELL is her DUMBASS HUSBAND??
Dad is part-time musician. Unless he inherited money, he’s got none.
uh...a GIRL....if she’s not molested or brainwashed.
He is too STUPID to do anything about this INSANITY?
There’s a reason so many Hollywood kids are druggies, failures, or otherwise messed up....it’s their upbringing.
Like throwing the kids to the wolves. HollyWeed.
If she keeps on that track, she’ll probable end up identifying as stupid and confused with a possible suicide in its future.
Poor girl. She’s going to be denied a normal childhood by a mentally ill mother.
LMAO! That’s one big BINGO! Robert De Numbnuts is an other example.
Put me down for she’s (shouldn’t it be ze?) going to grow up to be a tree frog.
So how does one go about that? GIving dolls and trucks or keeping them away?
And these are the intellectual slobs who think we can’t live without their hectoring advice.
You sure she memorizes her lines? Johnny Depp has to have them fed to him.
I think Goldie had long flown the coop by that point, so no decades-old impressions.
“”We still don’t know what she’s going to identify as,” she said of her baby girl, Rani Rose, who was born in October.””
You STILL don’t know? Well for goodness sake, what do you expect? She’s only 3 months old - give IT a couple more months! Instead of trying to figure out what school you want IT to attend when the time comes; as do all the “better than thou” people - better pick a good psychiatrist for IT!
Link to Brad Pitt - Well, he’s probably the only one she hasn’t had a “link” to....Her mother posted quite a record herself before Kurt Russell. Poor guy!
I could even live with her having political beliefs that I reject were she not DESTROYING CHILDRENS LIVES.
Sounds like your family has common sense. My girls were raised with tiaras and dresses and motorcycles and Sea Doos. And they were expected to help out with physical labor/chores when needed. One’s beginning a teaching career and the other works in a children’s hospital emergency room and is going to school to be a nurse.
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