Mrs Hobbit Humphrey and Jake England-Johns from the uk Keynsham refuses to disclose the sex of their 17-month-old child.
they do This because they want to protect the child against the ‘unconscious gender bias’, tells the BBC programme ‘Inside Out’.
the Mother, 38-year-old the Hobbit Humphrey, and father, 35-year-old Jake England-Johns, living together with their child, Anoush, in a houseboat in the small town of Keynsham. The 17-month-old baby are both dressed in boys – and pigetøj, and the parents have asked family and friends to address the child with gender-neutral pronouns like ‘they’ or ‘them’.
In the documentary tells one of the child’s grandparents, to the first after 11 months learned the sex of the child to know when they should change a diaper.
– Kønsneutralitet is to try to get us to behave neutrally facing the child, not to try to make them neutral, says Jake England-Johns in the documentary, where the child’s name has been changed to ‘Charlie’.
– We are not trying to get them to be anything. We will just have that they are themselves, he says of the child, and are supplemented by his wife:
– So many gender bias is unconscious. When I was pregnant, we had a conversation about how we would reduce the unconscious bias.
– And we found that the only way we could do it was by not telling the people the it. And to use they/them-pronomenet as long as we can and create this little bubble, where our baby may be, it is.
At a time, says the Hobbit Humphrey on, a or another come to say to the child that pink is for girls and blue is only for boys, and that you are not allowed to play with a certain toy, because you have a specific sex.
– The kind of still happens now a days. We’re just trying to protect Anoush from it, she says.
