They’re raising a Storm of controversy.
A Canadian family has decided to raise their 4-month-old baby, called Storm, to be “genderless.”
While parents Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, say there is no actual ambiguity about the child’s genitalia, they will not reveal Storm’s sex to anyone.
The couple believe they are allowing their children the freedom to choose who they want to be, unconstrained by social norms.
The only people who know Storm’s sex are older brothers Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and the two midwives who helped deliver the baby at their Toronto home on New Year’s Day.
“When the baby comes out, even the people who love you the most and know you so intimately, the first question they ask is, ‘Is it a girl or a boy?’ ” Witterick told a Canadian parenting website.
When Storm was born, the pair emailed their family and friends telling them, “We’ve decided not to share Storm’s sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a standup to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime.”
Friends — and even the baby’s grandparents — are not amused. But the parents are not fazed.
“If you really want to get to know someone, you don’t ask what’s between their legs,” said Stocker.
A Canadian family has decided to raise their 4-month-old baby, called Storm, to be “genderless.”
While parents Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, say there is no actual ambiguity about the child’s genitalia, they will not reveal Storm’s sex to anyone.
The couple believe they are allowing their children the freedom to choose who they want to be, unconstrained by social norms.
The only people who know Storm’s sex are older brothers Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and the two midwives who helped deliver the baby at their Toronto home on New Year’s Day.
“When the baby comes out, even the people who love you the most and know you so intimately, the first question they ask is, ‘Is it a girl or a boy?’ ” Witterick told a Canadian parenting website.
When Storm was born, the pair emailed their family and friends telling them, “We’ve decided not to share Storm’s sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a standup to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime.”
Friends — and even the baby’s grandparents — are not amused. But the parents are not fazed.
“If you really want to get to know someone, you don’t ask what’s between their legs,” said Stocker.
