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So, this article about a Swedish couple who is keeping their baby's gender secret, has been making the rounds. And to those of us interested in non-gender conforming identities, and what it means to raise kids in a world where no one is forced into a box, this article raises some interesting ideas.

However, even MORE interesting are the heated posts from folks with all sorts of opinions about what these parents should or should not be doing with their child. Responses range all over the spectrum. But what fascinates me most is how people assume that by not sharing the child's sex with the general population, this then means that this child doesn't have a gender identity. How commentors made this leap is easy to see-- we should all be privy to one another's gender identity all the time, right? Wrong. Good for this couple, to take a stand, and affording their child far more privacy than most of us, in this age of internet blogging.

This level of progressiveness forces us all to look a little more closely at our own baggage, eh?