The first question people ask after hearing of a new arrival is usually, “Boy or girl?”
Friends and family of one Canadian couple are getting no answer to this simple inquiry. Kathy Witterick and her husband David Stocker have decided to keep baby Storm's gender a secret.
http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/05/...cret?GT1=43001
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...er-under-wraps
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Awesomeness. The social construction of gender will eventually happen to this child if the child resembles traits that are able to be categorized as a girl/woman or boy/man. But, I firmly believe that gender doesn't have to happen the moment the ultrasound reveals the sex of the child, which is how most people do it.**
They aren't the first family to do this. This is extremely rare but has happened throughout history.
**These categorical distinctions are like other categorical distinctions that have been given longstanding meanings that don't disappear just because people sometimes ignore them (i.e. culture, race and ethnicity, age, etc.). People feel threatened, angry, and confused when people aren't easily identifiable; and when people choose not to identify as (insert category). That doesn't mean that people will not place people in a category and treat them accordingly. It also doesn't mean that the person will not eventually choose to identify as (insert category). It means that it isn't as easy as people like for it to be.
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