I'm at the frothing at the mouth level of frustration with this bullshit. If one is going for gender neutral, it is so much easier to supply both sides of the clothing/toy binary than to restrict either. As a child of the 70s, I had trucks, dolls, skirts, and overalls. My children of the late 90s and early oughts had a mix of whatever caught their fancy (and lots of op-shop clothing, because they were allowed free choice). I did have people tell me off for some of the choices, but typically only when a let a 'boy' wear 'girl' things. Except for the one who was cranky that the 2 week old wasn't in pink or blue, because how were they to know what to call the baby?
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I'm at the frothing at the mouth level of frustration with this bullshit. If one is going for gender neutral, it is so much easier to supply both sides of the clothing/toy binary than to restrict either. As a child of the 70s, I had trucks, dolls, skirts, and overalls. My children of the late 90s and early oughts had a mix of whatever caught their fancy (and lots of op-shop clothing, because they were allowed free choice). I did have people tell me off for some of the choices, but typically only when a let a 'boy' wear 'girl' things. Except for the one who was cranky that the 2 week old wasn't in pink or blue, because how were they to know what to call the baby?