Discuss how enabling a child’s “gender self-determination” (first link) might erode our cultural tendency to adopt “gender constancy” (second link). How might efforts toward “queer parenting” be constrained by gendered institutions and deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about the gender binary? Which way of learning about gender self-determination or constancy – most reflects what you learned as a child? How do you feel now? Would you try “genderqueer parenting” with your own children (now or in the future)? Why or why not?
On Queering Parenting and Gender-Neutrality
http://feministpigs.blogspot.com/2012/02/childrens-gender-self-determination.html
