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Alright, alright.

SovvySovvy member
edited June 2015 in January 2016 Moms
  1. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be annoying or offend. I am editing my post, I assume an old versions stays around so people can see why? Anyways, I see my annoyance is just me. Sorry again! 
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pregnancy #1 :: daughter lost to chromosomal abnormality at 18 weeks
pregnancy #2 :: son, born Aug 2011
pregnancy #3 :: due Jan 2016
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Re: Alright, alright.

  • rebbeccajrebbeccaj member
    I'm sure people are aware of the sex/gender topic but what's your point in posting this?
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  • gdazegdaze member
    This is just me, but my child will be whatever gender their sex is until they ever tell me otherwise in life
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  • SovvySovvy member
    My point is saying you're having a gender reveal party is incorrect. Talking about finding out the gender at the anatomy scan is incorrect.

    @gdaze, I'm with you there. I still try to use the correct terms.
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    pregnancy #1 :: daughter lost to chromosomal abnormality at 18 weeks
    pregnancy #2 :: son, born Aug 2011
    pregnancy #3 :: due Jan 2016
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  • abbi1995abbi1995 member
    ^^^ this post is the reason I deleted this app twice already. I mean Im part of the LGBTIQ community as well as my partner, but this post was unnecessary and annoying. I can promise you our fetuses/embryos aren't offended by us calling their gender/sex reveal party whatever we call it. They can't hear us yet much less have or are able to understand and express feelings. Damn!
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  • SovvySovvy member
    You deleted your app twice in the last 28 minutes?? Dang!! ;)
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    pregnancy #1 :: daughter lost to chromosomal abnormality at 18 weeks
    pregnancy #2 :: son, born Aug 2011
    pregnancy #3 :: due Jan 2016
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  • abbi1995abbi1995 member
    @je&moerder Lol no but I should've
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  • rebbeccajrebbeccaj member
    I agree it was completely unnecessary and annoying.
    On a light note....
    Congrats all mums to be!! :)
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  • SovvySovvy member
    I'm sorry that you're annoyed (general you). It gives me major eye-twitch. 
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    pregnancy #1 :: daughter lost to chromosomal abnormality at 18 weeks
    pregnancy #2 :: son, born Aug 2011
    pregnancy #3 :: due Jan 2016
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  • GhanimaAtreidesGhanimaAtreides member
    So much for having a top secret way to quickly discern another poster's intelligence and determine if they're worth more than a skim read. Now they all know.
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  • MommyduclosMommyduclos member
    I'm assuming the original post was annoyed about gender reveal parties and as much as I totally *get* the difference between gender and sex, sometimes saying sex just doesn't work. Hey come to my sex reveal party just isn't quite kosher KWIM? Or saying sex dreams instead of gender dreams- very different meaning there. So sometimes even though we know technically we are talking about sex, people use gender anyways because sex has multiple meanings.
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  • ChrissyD1203ChrissyD1203 member
    I had no idea gender reveal was an offensive term - but will stop using it and say sex reveal instead. I doubt anyone using it meant to offend - this is the first I have heard of it and I consider myself fairly educated (not that someone can't be educated but also ignorant), I live in a major city and have several LGBT friends (although no close friends that are transgender). Anyway it took me ten minutes of internet research before I could find anything and only when searching Jenner and gender reveal and baby did I find this article which seems well written https://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/04282015-bruce-jenner-and-why-we-should-stop-having-gender-reveal-parties/

    Anyway, just because this is new to me (I'm not trying to be sarcastic - although hard to express that over the Internet), is it okay/not offensive to tell people I'm having a boy/having a girl (son/daughter) and use feminine and masculine pronouns accordingly to describe the baby? If gender is a social construct and not a biological determination, then until a child were to choose a gender, how are they to be referred to? Curious to hear thoughts, and again, sorry to have offended by using the term gender reveal.
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