Parents Raising "Theybies": Letting Kids Decide Their Gender

[Herlock Sholmes]

I just can’t fathom what would go through a parents mind that would make them think that their kids needed to decide for themselves what sex they are. Life is full of difficulties which can’t be solved by simply changing the way we use words or by distorting reality. It wouldn’t make my life any better if I ‘identified’ as a millionaire.

[Sam Flynn]

I think the names Zyler and Kadyn speak for themselves.

I can't stand this fad for wacky, made-up names, or incorrect spellings of real ones; apparently "Kadyn" derives from the Scottish "Caden", so why not spell it "Caden"? It smacks either of pretentiousness or ignorance.

Perhaps more apposite in this context, another pet hate is giving kids a name of the wrong gender - Meredith, for example, is almost invariably a girl's name these days, but it's a male name in the original Welsh, and Paris was an important male character in the Trojan War.

Finally, what's the idea of using an obvious surname as a forename? (e.g. the actor McKenzie Crook, golfers Davis Love and Curtis Strange, and the tenor Rogers Covey-Crump). It's akin to giving your kid the first name of "Jenkins" or "Smith", and I find it utterly bizarre.

I could go on, but... mini-rant over

[Takod]

I think the names Zyler and Kadyn speak for themselves.

[Herlock Sholmes]

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...decide-n891836

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The world is going utterly insane. What’s wrong with these people?

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https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...decide-n891836

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