Tue Apr 4, 2023 – 4:50 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Australia’s Sixty Minutes, the local version of the American television show, recently aired a program about raising genderless “they-bies,” a supposedly new parenting practice.
The program featured a number of self-proclaimed enlightened parents who are counteracting “gender bias” by keeping the sex of their young children hidden and letting the children decide for themselves, from as young as age four, what they are.
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It is far from clear why this should be a story of any interest, even compared with Sixty Minutes’ usual dreary fare. But it is worth looking at some of the assumptions to get a glimpse of the way sexual politics is affecting the raising of children. It is not a trivial matter because it feeds into the increasing medicalization of childhood sexuality.
According to Gender Clinic News, Victoria has Australia’s largest and most influential gender clinic at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, where new patient referrals have multiplied a hundredfold over the decade since 2011.
The principal claim is that female and male social roles have been artificially constructed over thousands of years, presumably by patriarchs. The assumption underpinning this is that nature and
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