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Target Just Took a Surprising Step Towards Embracing Gender Fluidity - Mic

Target Just Took a Surprising Step Towards Embracing Gender Fluidity – Mic

Some welcome news from Target. Here’s an excerpt from a report by Tom McKay from Mic.com: Image via the Star Tribune Retail giant Target announced in a press release on Friday that it will begin to eliminate gendered advertising for many of its products. “In some cases, like apparel, where there are fit and sizing differences, [gendered advertising] makes sense,” the company wrote. “In others, it…

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So Your Daughter Wants to Play the 'Dazzling Princess' Game?

So Your Daughter Wants to Play the ‘Dazzling Princess’ Game?

In this post from Yahoo Parenting, dad ALEX YARDE looks at the refreshingly different way he and his wife are raising their son and daughter and encouraging their natural gender creativity. This was originally posted on a site called The Good Men Project which looks like a site that explores a new definition of masculinity. Now the dad sets the stage…

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Gender Creativity

For those of us who are dmab (designated male at birth) whether we identify as male, non-binary or transgender it takes a special kind of courage in our sexist and effeminaphobic culture for us to challenge gender expectations. Some guys even get uncomfortable with the idea of wearing kilts, which men have been wearing in Scotland for centuries or sarongs, which are the chosen attire for many men in Southeast Asia. Yet there is less stigma when those who are women, non-binary or transgender people that were designated female at birth wear men’s clothing. Why? Because sexism and effeminaphobia are alive and well unfortunately. So, in the preceding posts, I chose to highlight some of these gender creative people in hopes of challenging assumptions and perhaps making the world a better place for gender creative people. Hopefully by the time the boys whose moms are proud of them in the last 2 posts will find a more accepting world by the time they reach high school and college age.

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This weekend I met a hero

Adventures in raising a fabulously gender creative son.

I just returned from an amazing weekend at Gender Spectrum's annual conference in Berkeley and was incredibly honored to meet and hang out with several folks I have admired deeply from afar for quite some time including Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, the Gender Spectrum team, and Lisa Keating of My Purple Umbrella.

By far, though, the most rewarding part of the conference for me was getting to sit down and chat with C.J's mom from Raising My Rainbow. She is an incredibly fierce mama on a mission to make the world a better, more inclusive and kind place for her two sons and kiddo's everywhere, and a source of serious inspiration for me.

If you've never heard of her or her darling son, I cannot recommend her blog highly enough. 

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Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: PG-13 Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, James Sirius Potter Additional Tags: Community: dracotops_harry, Gender Creative Child, Gender Creativity, Gender Issues, Gender Roles, Minor Bullying, Suspicions of Incorrect Behaviour

Summary:

Jamie Potter is most definitely a boy, but he also loves dresses, ribbons, and dolls. Harry has become protective of his unique son, and wary of those around him who seek to change Jamie to fit what they consider normal. He is wary of everyone, but most particularly he is wary of trusting Draco Malfoy to be his son’s teacher while the Potters are in France.