Here’s a story that seems tailor-made for Blogtown’s Judgment Patrol™. A pair of parents in West Toronto refuse to let anyone know the gender of their four-month-old baby, Storm. From Canada’s The Star:

While there’s nothing ambiguous about Storm’s genitalia, they aren’t telling anyone whether their third child is a boy or a girl.
The only people who know are Storm’s brothers, Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and the two midwives who helped deliver the baby in a birthing pool at their Toronto home on New Year’s Day.
“When the baby comes out, even the people who love you the most and know you so intimately, the first question they ask is, ‘Is it a girl or a boy?’” says Witterick, bouncing Storm, dressed in a red-fleece jumper, on her lap at the kitchen table.
“If you really want to get to know someone, you don’t ask what’s between their legs,” says Stocker.
When Storm was born, the couple sent an email to friends and family: “We’ve decided not to share Storm’s sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime (a more progressive place? …).”

Hmm. Okay, Blogtownies—LET’S GO TO THE POLLS!

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

17 replies on “Parents Keep Baby’s Genitals a Secret”

  2. They’re not saying whether the baby is Canadian, either. Which makes sense, don’t burden the kid with that stigma at such a tender age.

  3. I read the article in a Chelsea Handler accent. That never has happened to me. I swear. Which says a lot about the story.

  6. I don’t give a shit about this gender nonsense, but they’ve named their three children: Jazz, Kio, and Storm. Fuck them for that stupid shit.

  12. Am I the only one who has noticed that Kiala hasn’t been on Blogtown lately? The Rapture didn’t happen, so that can’t be it.

  16. @Geyser

    Totally agree, Storm is a girl’s name – American Gladiators, X Files, etc. If they were truly serious about this, they would have named their child-thing Pat and rebooted the SNL sketch.

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