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In Sweden, the gender neutral pronoun “hen” has been in the national dictionary since 2015 and is now commonly used by most Swedes, the Swedish government’s school plan has since 1998 forbidden enforcing gender stereotypes, and government funded gender neutral kindergartens with gender aware teachers has made it possible for families to raise their children without a set gender identity, something that often sparks controversy in the foreign press.
Amelia spends time with one of these gender non-conforming families, mapa (mom and dad) Del LaGrace Volcano who was born intersex (both male and female), the children Mika (5) and Nico (3) and their grandma Margareta. She visits Mika and Nico's gender aware kindergarten to find out what the teachers and the other kids make of Mika’s gender expression.She also meets the founder of Sweden’s gender-neutral kindergartens, Lotta Rajalin, to learn how they go about deleting gender norms from education, as well as psychiatrist Dr Eberhard who is against Sweden’s attitude to gender in kindergartens.
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Why is it that "Gender-neutral" always appears as anti male? Tell boys they are not masculine, let girls do whatever.
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When the kid ask "Do you always have to say that?" said it all.
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Interviewer: What are your favorite clothes?
Child: SPIDERMAN
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I think avoiding gender stereotypes on toys and roles is good, but acting like gender does not exist seems dumb.
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Asking a child every day who they want to be must be confusing and frustrating for them.
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I could not imagine how messed up I’d be if my parents made my entire childhood all about gender identity by trying to not have gender identity.
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It actually impressed me so much when at 7:54 Mika was asked "what kind of children are you gonna have?" and Mika answered "I don't care how they look like" with such confidence and just a pure face of "that literally doesn't matter at all why would you ask me that??"!
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Mika literally said “why do you always ask that” he’s tired of hearing it cuz he’s a CHILD he wants to play not change his gender
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"Why do you think Mika doesn't like to talk about gender"
Me: probably cause Mika is five!
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The reason I see an issue with this style of brining up a child is because they’re more inclined to start to feel pressured into choosing a certain identity to make the parent happy. Whereas if you call them by the gender they’re born with, while still letting them choose what they want to wear, what they want to play with and allowing them to freely express themselves as more feminine or masculine regardless of their gender, later on in life they’ll be able to ultimately decide what they feel deep down they truly are. It’s all about how you as the parent treat certain topics. If you raise your child strictly based on their gender and sticking to the gender norms, and speak negatively about transgenders, homosexuals etc. that’s not okay either. I think a certain balance between both extremes of parenting is probably the best. I can understand what the psychologist was saying, that he feels choosing to raise a child on the opposite end of the spectrum than a traditional/conservative style can also cause different issues.
Personally I’d refer to my child as the gender they’re assigned at birth, but allow them to act and dress however they like and as they grow up, make it clear to them that I have no issue or see anything wrong with it if they one day they tell me they’re non binary/gay/trans/lesbian etc. I’d make it known to them that they would be loved and embraced no matter what they are but not take gender out of the equation at an early age altogether.
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The parent seems loving and well intentioned. But I don't think they realize that they may be projecting their personal experience on their children. As a parent, It's easy to fall into the mindset that you can't give too much choice to a child. But the reality is that too much can sometimes be as damaging as not enough.
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Dear Vice, please go back to this family again in 10 years
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I'd love to see an update to these kids after they enter teenagerhood and see how this has affected them
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During our childhood in a Catholic country in Southern Europe, over 50 years ago, my siblings and I played with the same toys. When my mother painted her nails we all asked her to paint ours, boys and girls, and she painted each of us one nail. Although the boys didn't wear dresses, we girls wore their clothes when they outgrew them. Today we are all straight middle-aged individuals.
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I am a woman, never played with dolls, I loved playing with boys, never liked makeup or girly conversations. Sometimes I wore colourful dresses and sometimes I wanted to put on tenis and jeans. All I see in this Idiology is stereotypes at work. I am so glad I could grow as a girl and never feel pressure to behave like one by my parents. This is going backwards not progress.
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Kinda seems like parents are projecting their issues at their kids.
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This is like having a vegan pet, we all know who's making the decisions here
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This is very similar to how my husband and I raise our kids but with one glaring exception: we use pronouns and our children know their birth gender. My son knows he's a boy. But he's a boy only because his anatomy says so. He can be a boy and like pink (and he does). He can be a boy and have long hair (and he does). He can be a boy and have dolls (and he does). He also has trucks and cars and legos. He can like or do whatever the heck he wants. But he knows he is a boy. I guess to us your gender is just what anatomy you have and not what you like or look like. Instead of eliminating gender, we are teaching our kids that it exists, but it doesn't define you.
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I'm a trans woman who was afraid to come out until I was 33, because my family and friends were ... not so great. I have a daughter with my wife. She is 8 month old and she will be talked to as girl. She was born female and I know that being cis is way more common than everything else. What she will learn from me is that she can play with every toy she likes, and wear every piece if clothing she wants to no matter if it is "for boys" or "for girls". And if she someday comes to my wife and me and says: "Mama, Mummy, I don't think I'm a girl/woman", I will support him/them in every way possible. But I will not raise her genderless. This is an extreme that we shouldn't support. It's just the opposite of "there are only two genders" and it is as stupid. Sure, gender can be a fluid thing, but we have a biological sex and it makes perfect sense to assign the fitting gender to that. Everything else is something a child can learn when its brain is more developed. And if some of you want to scream at me, because I as a trans woman shouldn't speak about biological sex, because it doesn't matter (yeah, that happened): I have to get my prostate checked in about twelve years. Says something about gender and sex that I as a woman still need that.
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@hannahcampbell7746
4 years ago
"why doesn't mika want to talk about gender?" because they are 5 years old and clearly tired of a gender obsessed household
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