Seeking a post-gender society

[Natasha]

Seeking a post-gender society

http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2009-02-18/transcending-gender
2/17/09

There is a story often read in woman's studies programs called "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" by Lois Gould. In it, a child named X is raised in a gender-neutral household. Neither X nor anybody else is privy to X's biological sex and X is never assigned a gender. The child's parents buy Barbie dolls and GI Joes, ballet slippers and toy fire trucks. X is allowed to grow up and develop interests independent of what society expects of a female or male child, and in the process, inspires other children to shed their confining gender roles.

While this method of raising a child is far from the norm, LSA senior Cayden Mak sees the value in challenging our society's assumptions about how gender is constructed.

[RebeccaFog]

Isn't it really more 'self gendered' than 'post-gendered'?  A person grows up and decides who they are without pressures or undue influence.

[Ellieka]

This reminds me of a StarTrek episode I saw once where an alien race let their youth choose their own gender once they reached puberty.