I believe we should not assume anything when a kid is growing up. The most healthiest option I think is to let the child bloom and not limit nor confine them with the norm. The role of the parent should be to nurture and guide the child through life. The birth assumption that the child is straight/cisgender from the get go should not be the norm. Because the child should be the one to decide what and who they want to be. That whole norm of "coming out" should not be something that should happen. And I mean this with what I said earlier in mind. A child should not be thrown into this category of straight and cisgender before they even can express themselves. But society has continued to label and categorize what people should and should not be for ages. That assumption is almost always straight and cisgender which it should not be. So yeah lets challenge this norm and change it.
"The most healthiest option I think is to let the child bloom and not limit nor confine them with the norm. The role of the parent should be to nurture and guide the child through life."
I LOVE the way you phrased this, and I'd have to agree with you on both counts. Since I'm always the optimist, I think we're headed in this exact direction.
I think the biggest frontier here is gender. Case and point: people are realizing that traditions like gender reveal parties don't quite cut it in a new age where there's mounting evidence that gender isn't something you can confirm at birth. Rather, it's something that "blooms" like you said. For anyone interested, Planned Parenthood has a whole article on the difference between biological sex and gender (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity)
Even stars like Emily Ratajkowski have embraced this idea – she wrote an article about not wanting to reveal the gender of her baby over on Vogue (https://www.vogue.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-pregnant-announcement-digital-cover). Although I don't totally agree with everything she's written there (I think the writing contradicts itself a little) still cool to see this thinking gain traction in the mainstream.
I believe we should not assume anything when a kid is growing up. The most healthiest option I think is to let the child bloom and not limit nor confine them with the norm. The role of the parent should be to nurture and guide the child through life. The birth assumption that the child is straight/cisgender from the get go should not be the norm. Because the child should be the one to decide what and who they want to be. That whole norm of "coming out" should not be something that should happen. And I mean this with what I said earlier in mind. A child should not be thrown into this category of straight and cisgender before they even can express themselves. But society has continued to label and categorize what people should and should not be for ages. That assumption is almost always straight and cisgender which it should not be. So yeah lets challenge this norm and change it.
"The most healthiest option I think is to let the child bloom and not limit nor confine them with the norm. The role of the parent should be to nurture and guide the child through life."
I LOVE the way you phrased this, and I'd have to agree with you on both counts. Since I'm always the optimist, I think we're headed in this exact direction.
I think the biggest frontier here is gender. Case and point: people are realizing that traditions like gender reveal parties don't quite cut it in a new age where there's mounting evidence that gender isn't something you can confirm at birth. Rather, it's something that "blooms" like you said. For anyone interested, Planned Parenthood has a whole article on the difference between biological sex and gender (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity)
Even stars like Emily Ratajkowski have embraced this idea – she wrote an article about not wanting to reveal the gender of her baby over on Vogue (https://www.vogue.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-pregnant-announcement-digital-cover). Although I don't totally agree with everything she's written there (I think the writing contradicts itself a little) still cool to see this thinking gain traction in the mainstream.
Thanks for the comment!