Seeking a post-gender society
http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2009-02-18/transcending-gender (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.
Isn't it really more 'self gendered' than 'post-gendered'? A person grows up and decides who they are without pressures or undue influence.
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.