Parents call their child "it" in order to raise them in a gender-neutral way

Anoush should decide for herself whether the child is a boy or a girl.

This is how the parents want it - and therefore keep the biological sex a secret.

Kensham - More and more people no longer feel comfortable in the traditional gender roles of “man” and “woman”.

The biological gender ascribed at birth is becoming less important among young people.

Because of this, some parents decide not to raise their child as a boy or a girl.

Anoush's parents told the British broadcaster

how stressful that can be in today's society

.

Hobbit Humphrey and Jake England-Johns live in Kensham, England and raise their child born in 2018 in a gender neutral manner.

In order for this to really work, they keep the gender of their child at birth a secret.

Even grandparents shouldn't know what biological gender the toddler is.

Baby Anoush's gender is a secret: Grandmother doesn't find out for eleven months

Only after eleven months did the grandmother find out whether her grandchild was a “boy” or a “girl” - because she had to change the child's diaper. Nevertheless, Humphrey and England-Johns continue to raise the child in a gender-neutral manner. They denote Anoush with the pronoun "es" (in English: "they" or "them") and dress the child in both girls 'and boys' clothes. "We want to create this little bubble for our baby in which it can find out for itself who it is," said the parents.

For others, gender, i.e. gender-equitable language, is a real hot topic. Scooter singer HP Baxxter, for example, thinks it "sucks". Meanwhile, the Hamburg CDU boss Christoph Ploß recently called for a gender ban in official texts - and was then heavily criticized on Twitter *.