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Originally Posted by AnnieK

I'm not sure about this...surely it will lead to more confusion in the child? I can get allowing him to play with "girls" toys but I'm not sure about dressing him in girls clothes. Children need to determine their own identity and self awareness. The sentiment is good I think, most parents love their children unconditionally regardless of sex, future sexual orientation etc.

But do you not think that by letting him dress up and play with all these different things, they're actually allowing him to determine his own identity? If they were just raising him like most other people raise their kids, he would have an identity imposed upon him that he would accept as his own once he reached a certain age, for example: you like football, you spike your hair up, you play with toy cars...

Once you get past the unusual nature of what they're doing, I actually think it's a really wonderful thing. They're teaching him that he can be whoever he wants to be without fear of judgment from them from birth. Isn't that what all children want to hear from their parents? They won't judge him if he turns out to be any different from anyone else because they're encouraging him to be whoever he wants to be. I mean it's not like this is so isolated; Sweden not long ago introduced a gender neutral pronoun that people can use instead of he/she/him/her so that if people want to be ambiguous about gender and not discriminate in any way, they now have the vocabulary for that.