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This article is about a baby named Storm.  Storm was born in 2011 in Toronto, Canada.  When Storm was born, Storm's parents would't say whether Storm was a boy or a girl.  Only a few people know about Storm's gender but the parents didn't want Storm to be exposed to the gender messages/roles.   The parents want Storm to share his/her gender when the time is right.  Storm wanted to be a monster for Halloween in order to roar.  Some people are saying this is child abuse and that Storm's parents are using Storm as an experiment.  Storm has also been known to say "I am a girl" or "I am a boy" at different times.

Looking at this story with Storm there are a lot of things to consider.  In class we learned that Gender means what society considers appropriate for males and females.  On one side we could argue that in order to shelter Storm from these "expectations", pressures and stereotypes society has, Storm's parents tried something new in order to give their child a choice.  Yet on the other side we could view this as now confusing and making Storm uncomfortable.  While Storm's friends grow up already aware of what gender they are, Storm has to figure out what gender he/she is.

This is the link to the article:
http://www.thestar.com/life/parent/2013/11/15/remember_storm_we_check_in_on_the_baby_being_raised_genderneutral.html