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The Price Of Noncompliance

Started by Butterfly, June 16, 2011, 01:15:52 AM

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June 16, 2011, 01:15:52 AM
The Price Of Noncompliance
Questioning Transphobia
Written by poisongirl
15 June, 2011


http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3789


Toronto couple Kathy Witterick and David Stocker did the usual thing that any parents do when their new child is born, they sent out an email notice noting their new baby's vital statistics and eye color. But what they did differently was to leave short, simple statement about their baby, named Storm.

It read:

"We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ..."

Essentially what Witterick and Stoker have decided is to not assume that Storm is cisgender and to leave it to Storm to figure out whom zie is for zimself in the spirit of self determination and autonomy, free of coercive gender stereotyping.
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