The Scrapbook is far too jaded and worldly wise to be shocked by the article in the Washington Post headlined “Transgender man gives birth to baby boy.” But we were taken aback by one outrageous, insensitive, gender-autonomy-denying detail: The poor infant is called a “boy.” How could they possibly know? It’s not like they were able to ask xer. Once the child can talk, xe will make xer preferences known. But why “assign” a gender in the first place? It’s an insidious act to impose society’s outmoded binary construct on children, who should have total freedom of gender fluidity. What could possibly have led these parents, who should know better, to call their child a “boy”? They and the Washington Post should be ashamed for harboring such retrograde attitudes.
