"Assigned female at birth" - gender neutral baby announcements

[BlingLoving]

Someone on my facebook announced birth of her and her partner's new baby (they are both women. Although I'm not sure if they identify as women or something else). Gender neutral names. In the comments, in response to a comment, she has said "[babyname] was assigned female at birth" and I just want to scream.

I'm not hugely active on these issues but I do think that saying girls have vaginas and boys have penises is a pretty uncontroversial statement personally. And it makes me sad. I love that she'll try to bring up her child to not confirm to gender stereotypes, I just don't understand why to do that the child can't be called "her/she" or be accepted as a GIRL.

Sorry. Rant over. I know a lot of you will get it.

You wouldn't announce that your child was intersex on facebook!!!

Honestly I think I would just block them, it’s just so tedious to announce a birth like this.

@LetsSplashMummy - No, the chances of the baby being intersex are pretty low. This woman is a vocal advocate of gender fluidity so I think it's just a desire not to have her child "labelled" female from the start. Whatever. It annoys me but will stay following as it will actually be interesting to see how this plays out.

Surely a gender neutral birth announcement just says "We are delighted to announce that baby Zephyr was born on 01/08/2029 weighing 7lb. Parents and baby are all doing well."
Why mention sex or gender at all?

In reality it doesn't matter what they do because once that child hits nursery, and definitely school, whatever they have done to raise the child naturally, she will be surrounded by other girls loving pink and playing with dolls and they will struggle to do anything about gender stereotypes being foisted on her.

*neutrally not naturally. Bloody autocorrect.

Their parenting sounds utterly toxic.
How awful.

If they had wanted to, even though the baby was clearly a girl, could they have said they assigned the baby as male?

I'm surprised so many people on here don't understand this birth announcement. It's what woke people say instead of the actual sex, because they don't want to be accused of assuming their gender based on their biological sex alone, because they are too stupid to understand the different between biological sex and gender. Or are unwittingly so sexist themselves they believe the two are intertwined. The baby is a girl, with a vagina. They haven't just plucked a sex for it out of thin air.

Absolutely ridiculous. Unless they are intersex (which is rare), a baby is male or female.

What a pair of cringeworthy twats.

@PerspicaciaTick That is the original announcement. In response to a question they mentioned the "assigned female at birth" thing.

Surely a baby is born a particular sex, will be subject to the level of gender stereotyping that is the norm in society, mitigated or enhanced by the parental approach.

And as they grow, can develop their own gender identity .

The parroting of ‘assigned at birth’ may me no more than the misuse of ‘gender ‘ instead of ‘sex’ that became common a decade ago and has confused the debate no end.

They’re going to fuck with that kid’s head and think they’re being so progressive. Poor little fecker.

Mummy, and I a boy or a girl?
What do you think?
Ummmm boy?
Why?
Because I have a peepee.
But girls can have peepees too, you know? Maybe you’re a girl.
WTF have you been smoking mummy?
Please don’t call me that, it’s ‘significant caregiver A’ remember’

....It's assign of the times.

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