13 People Who Want the Royal Baby, Not the Patriarchy, to Choose its Gender

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Ummm so about that royal baby, they shouldn't declare its gender so quickly! I kinda want them to raise it in such a way that it can choose.

— Money$ha K (@ManKan510) July 23, 2013

What if the royal baby got to choose its own name and how to express it's gender when it's older?

— Ian Duhig (@ianduhig) July 23, 2013

  “Dove” is a person of transgender choice:

https://twitter.com/TommyTopHat/statuses/359403507150888960

“Heteronormative” means imposing traditional standards of gender:

media being so heteronormative around the royal birth that it actually sickens me #LGBT #RoyalBaby

— Dave Arnold (@DaveArnold91) July 22, 2013

Karl is a self-described “queer” from Ireland:

There’s been so much talk about what gender the royal baby is that it’s kinda sad it’s being decided for them before they can even think.

— Karl~ (@karlnando) July 23, 2013

A feminist:

https://twitter.com/marliesanna/statuses/359408046721597442

Of course the royal baby might not even have a binary gender. — kassiカニ先輩 (@crabsarehere) July 22, 2013

From San Francisco!

It may be a boy – depends on how they choose to express their gender if at all

— Myles C♨♨per (@MylesUSA) July 22, 2013

He got into a little tiff over it:

@AH_Jason take a human sexuality class please

— Myles C♨♨per (@MylesUSA) July 23, 2013

Another foreigner!

ISN’T IT A BIT TOO EARLY TO IMPOSE GENDER ROLES TO IT ALREADY? #royalbaby — PULMA JORKKINËN (@TSVKOM) July 22, 2013

It’s a bit early to assign gender roles to this royal baby… I hope they grow up to be a queen. Or, you know, whatever they want to be. — ERN⚡CLFFRD (@ERiiiN) July 23, 2013

Birth of the #RoyalBaby exposes the media’s love of patriarchy and #GenderConformity. I’m hoping Wills & Kate have a healthy trans baby.

— Christopher J. Hogan (@Koko_Hogan) July 22, 2013

A “Queer Arachnofeminist”:

STOP CALLING THE #ROYALBABY A BOY. ZIR BIOLOGICAL SEX IS NOT RELEVANT. This is how the patriarchy indoctrinated its future leader.

— Sophy QX (@SophyQX) July 22, 2013

Some more on Storify. H/T @GenStuart

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