Couples about to welcome a baby into their family love to present the child’s gender with a unique gender-reveal event that highlights how excited they are for their coming child. You can find some great designs posted at Pinterest or see options at Amazon.
The great paradox, however, is that at the same time so many families are celebrating gender, some other couples do not want any gender acknowledgement for their child.
A recent discussion of this paradox was well documented by Rod Dreher in the American Conservative’s article entitled “Rosemary’s Theyby.” There Dreher examined and analyzed the New York magazine story about people trying to raise their children with no consciousness of gender at all. He characterized the phenomenon as “well and truly the end of all sanity. Do I think everybody’s going to start raising their children as theybies? No, I do not. What I do worry about is that this kind of thing, and its celebration by the news and entertainment media and by mainstream institutions (especially schools), will only add to the growing confusion about what is real, and what is not, and whether or not reality can be made to cohere. … Our culture is quickly deconstructing the self. This process is the opposite of symbolic; it is diabolic.” In fact, some health care sectors are already seeking to erase binary gender.
According to the Associated Press, some legal experts contend that unfamiliarity with how gender identities develop can lead to grave consequences in custody disputes because state family courts use a subjective best interest of the child standard. In other words, if a judge views the possibility of becoming an LGBT adult as a positive or negative outcome, or feels that gender identity may be ‘undesirable,’ or isn't aware of the emotional and physical risks associated with pushing a child to conform or not conform to gender norms, that judge could make placing the child with a ‘non-supportive’ parent a huge factor in or not in the child's best interest.
The best advice for parents is to not allow yourself, your child, or those who influence your child, to be pressured or compelled by mass movement media manipulation, but rather to think for yourself, with the Creator as the focus, because the Almighty understands your child best of all. Indeed, train up a child in the way God has planned for him or her to go, and when he or she is grown, that plan will not be departed from – regardless of gender. Proverbs 22:6.
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