Parents raise a 'gender-less' child

"Sex is what is 'between the legs' and gender is what is 'between the ears' "
This is quite a nice differentitation between sex and gender for the purpose of our understanding, but has been taken a stage further for a couple and their most recent child in Canada.
They have not told anyone what sex the baby is and will raise him/her as neither a girl or a boy, so that he/she may make their own choice on their gender.

Read one of the news reports on this here.

Clinical psychologist Dr Brenda Todd , a senior lecturer at City University , said the experiment has been tried before in the 1970s by a feminist academic and her husband, with limited success.

"When the child gets older, the influence of the peer group is much stronger than that of the family so, like it or not, it will become gender aware."
Dr Todd pointed to research she and a colleague did on children between the ages of nine months and 36 months.
"We found that they really did have stereotypical preferences even at that age, with the girls going for teddy bears and dolls and the boys going for balls and cars."

Find other reports on this and think about:
- Do you agree with what the parents are doing?
- Why do you think they have chosen to raise a genderless child?
- What benefits or problems do you think this could bring to the child as they grow up?