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Title: Raising a Child as Gender-Neutral from Birth – Right or Wrong?
Post by: Natasha on March 02, 2012, 02:09:32 PM
Raising a Child as Gender-Neutral from Birth – Right or Wrong?

http://lettersfrombluehaven.com/2012/02/29/raising-a-child-as-gender-neutral-from-birth-right-or-wrong/ (http://lettersfrombluehaven.com/2012/02/29/raising-a-child-as-gender-neutral-from-birth-right-or-wrong/)
2/29/12
By J. M. Anna Hill

I spent the day at NSPCC volunteer training in London, at their Folgate Street HQ, which was – without a doubt – a lovely experience to say the least. Now, I'm going to dive straight into the topic here. See, during one of our breaks, I and a few other trainees were gathered around sipping cups of tea/coffee and generally having a bit of a chit-chat, and (I think it was after I made a joke-y comment about the idea, that someone else had brought up, that the male volunteers had less clothing to choose from in regards to the volunteer dress code, to which I light-heartedly disagreed and said that they could always wear dresses if they really wanted to) another of the trainees, a retired teacher (and a lovely woman) brought up that she knows a couple who are raising their child (born biologically male) as gender-neutral.