Would you consider raising your child as gender neutral?
, and the parents explained that they dress Charlie in both girls and boys clothing.
"Gender neutral refers to us trying to behave neutrally toward the child, rather than trying to make them neutral. We're not trying to make them be anything," Jake told BBC."We just want them to be themselves. We are quite good now at holding space for people's discomfort in us saying, 'Actually, we don't tell anyone, we're not telling anyone for now.' We're just letting Charlie be a baby. Charlie is the most lovely little human.
Although one grandparent learned the child's gender while changing Charlie's diaper six months ago, Hobbit and Jake have held firm about keeping the info as under wraps as possible. "So much of gender bias is unconscious. When I got pregnant we then were having a discussion about how we were going to mitigate the unconscious bias and we figured that the only way we could do that was just not to tell people," explained Hobbit."[We want] tofor as long as we can, and create this little bubble for our baby to be who they are.
Hobbit explained that at the end of the day, they just want their child to be who they truly are."It has had the effect we wanted, of letting our baby develop its own interests regardless of gender. So, for example, while they love having a doll's tea party every morning, they also are really fascinated by motorbikes and machinery," said Hobbit.
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