The gender neutral trend is quickly spreading with the London underground and Dutch Railway (NS) as well as the city of Amsterdam all changing to Gender neutral pronounces!
I re-edited the VICE documentary and tried to focus as much as possible on the experience of the kids. Vice was painting too much of a rainbow picture instead of looking at the actual reaction of the kids and acknowledging the confusion it caused. The original documentary has many dislikes because of the this.
* Original VICE documentary "Raised Without Gender" *
• Raised Without Gender
* Suicide rates male vs female, Sweden *
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide...
* Youth suicide all time high in Sweden *
www.thelocal.se/20140728/swed...
* A child's self esteem already developed by the age of 5 *
www.washington.edu/news/2015/1...
* Genderless parenting, a risky experiment *
www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-haro...
Conclusion by VICE
"While adults have strong ideas about gender. Mika and kids their age are still working out what gender means to them. The norms we have about the binary won't change over night. But if kids were truly given the room to explore gender on their own term. Maybe a more fluid gender identity would gradually be more acceptable."