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An increasing number of parents are raising theybies — babies who are gender-neutral. They don’t use he/she pronouns and conform to gender-specific clothes or toys. But there are criticisms of this system of parenting, with some calling it ‘too woke’. “It’s a they!” That’s what parents of newborns are declaring these days. In the age of the woke, raising gender-neutral babies is all the rage. They are called theybies, identified neither as boys nor girls. And before you scoff or think we are joking, a simple Google search will show that it is, in fact, a real thing, acquiring more...

Babies are so passe, even royal ones. The hip new thing to have is a "theyby", according to a trend spotted by New York magazine that sees parents bringing up their offspring in a gender-neutral fashion.

abies are so passe, even royal ones. The hip new thing to have is a “theyby”, according to a trend spotted by New York magazine that sees parents bringing up their offspring in a gender-neutral fashion. There was of course nothing gender-specific about the “ba-“ part of “baby”, which is already a diminutive form of the original English word “babe”. The Oxford English Dictionary says that its origin is probably onomatopoeic – two syllables of “ba”, which is a typical “early infantile vocalisation”. So while a baby can call itself a baba, even if by accident, it will take much...