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It's a boy! And he's five. Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, have spent half the decade concealing the gender of their son, Sasha.
"I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping," Laxton said in an interview with the Cambridge News. "Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?"
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Laxton, a UK-based web editor, and her partner, Cooper, decided to keep Sasha's sex a secret when he was still in the womb. The birth announcement stated the gender-neutral name of their child, but skipped the big reveal. Up until recently, the couple only told a few close friends and family members that Sasha was a boy and managed to keep the rest of the world in the dark. But now that he's starting school the secret's out.
For years, Becks has been referring to her child, the youngest of three, as "the infant" on her personal blog. But guarding the public from her son's gender was only part of her quest to let her kid just be a kid.
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/couple-finally-reveals-childs-gender-five-years-birth-180300388.html
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Steelwind_Oo
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Skull shirt not ok... pink swimsuit ok. Yeah that sounds like a nice balanced gender neutral environment. That and since when has Sasha been gender neutral?
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FineYoungCannibals
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Registered: 2003-7-14 19:17:12
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you need a license to catch a fish or drive a car but to birth a human child you don't need s***
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arekthorn
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Registered: 2002-5-27 18:26:39
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Steelwind_Oo posted:
Skull shirt not ok... pink swimsuit ok. Yeah that sounds like a nice balanced gender neutral environment. That and since when has Sasha been gender neutral?
Sasha is a relatively common male name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_(name)
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in eastern europe its a boys name, in us its a girls name.
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Steelwind_Oo
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I stand corrected, thanks.
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Mage_Rage
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The parts of stories people fixate on is fascinating. ...insane parents ramblings..blah, blah...SASHA ....sterotypes....blah, blah.
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Gaevren
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Registered: 2004-9-15 09:29:36
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Fallen_daemon posted:
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
Wow, skulls are not ok but pink sparkly is?
My girls wear skull print shirts. And cargo pants. Cause, you know... they make them for girls nowadays too.
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Gaevren posted:
Fallen_daemon posted:
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
Wow, skulls are not ok but pink sparkly is?
My girls wear skull print shirts. And cargo pants. Cause, you know... they make them for girls nowadays too.
Twilight in teens and Monster High in elementary school kids has made gothic wear mainstream and socially accepted.
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Caoilin
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Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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i don't see how this makes them crazy bat siht parents. they're being weird and not neutral so much as forcing him to be ok with everything that is girly, except barbie. i fail to see how cargo pants are hyper masculine. 
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