To ask this about gender?

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Why would a parent/s choose not to assign a gender to their newborn baby?

I'll bite! Why do you need to assign a gender? Babies generally have a sex which can be identified at birth.

How they choose to identify as they get old enough to understand the concept is up to them.

What difference does it actually make to a baby which gender they are assigned?

It came up at the end of the Louis Theroux programme. Mentioned that one of the couples named their child Elliot and chose not to assign a gender to the baby. Obviously it's sex is either a boy or girl but I was curious as to the statement they made.

Genders are not assigned. Sex is, however, recorded.

Genders are asigned though aren't they? If someone has a female child they are expected to dress it in certain colours and give it certain toys. Just because something is a social construct or a social nonsense doesn't make it not real

So if Elliot, for example, is a boy would the parents go out of their way to hide that fact? And how would they approach using the pronouns he or she?

You're right; it is social nonsense. And I think that does make it unreal.

Not all female born babies (to use your example) will be told to wear a certain colour, or play with those toys, or want to marry a male person. "Gender assignment" in this way therefore just becomes the imposition of stereotypes, which is very different to sex being recorded on a birth certificate.

I presume they would use gender neutral pronouns?

Sex is fixed and in DNA. Sex is recorded on a Birth certificate. It says sex not gender. That's why I don't get why Birth Certificates can be changed nowadays.

Birth certificates are issued when a baby is registered. So presumably the sex is on there regardless of what parents think or don't think.

Gender assignment" in this way therefore just becomes the imposition of stereotypes, which is very different to sex being recorded on a birth certificate.

Right I completley agree with this bit but we do still overwhelmingly live in a culture where those stereotypes are imposed more often than not to create the whole idea of gender.

More nonsense. Sex is recorded.dress how the hell you like. A baby grow is a baby grow .

By denying the sex you 're enforce the ge get stereotypes so defeats object anyway.