Storm Stocker Case
Raising a genderless baby: The Case of Storm Stocker
Raising a family of three children is no easy feat to begin with, and the Stocker family of Toronto, Ontario has made one decision regarding their new baby that will hardly make it any easier. Mrs. Stocker gave birth to her third child on new years day of 2011, and accompanying the proud new parents e-mail to friends and families announcing the baby’s birth, was a rather controversial statement; "We 've decided not to share Storm 's sex for now -- a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm 's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...)." (CTV 1) Mr. & Mrs. Stocker had decided to raise their new baby boy or girl, with out …show more content…
This case as analyzed through intersectionality is perfect to highlight the many ways in which race, class, gender and sexuality all come to act as social forces on us as we develop in our given environment (Kennedy & Hellen 36). As we watch Storm mature into whatever Storm aspires to be, Storm will be simultaneously turning back millennia of stereotypes, biases, roles and assumptions that have been entrenched in our global society. The potential for real social change stems from the point where other individuals who have been raised and socialized similarly to storm, organize and create social movements to further awareness and understanding of neo-gendered individuals (Madison & Shaw 435). In this way Storm and their contemporaries will show us how the binary concepts of man/women have been one of the most pervasive forces locking us within a certain realm of action and understanding dictated strictly by the reproductive organs we were born with. Who we love, how we love are all subject to change as "Our identities are a fluid assemblage of the meanings and behaviors that we construct from values, images and prescriptions we find in the world around us" (Kimmel …show more content…
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Biber, Sharlene Nagy. Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2007. Print.
Harding, Sandra. "Feminist Standpoints." Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2007. 46-64. Print.
Kennedy, Natacha, and Mark Hellen. "Transgender children: more than a theoretical challenge." Graduate Journal of Social Science 7 (2010): 25-42. Print.
Kimmel, Michael S.. The gendered society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.
Lahelma, Elina. "Female Paths To Adulthood In A Country Of ‘Genderless Gender’." Gender & Education 24.1 (2012): 1-13. Academic Search Complete. Web.
Luecke, Julie. "Working with Transgender Children and Their Classmates in Pre-Adolescence: Just Be Supportive."Journal of LGBT Youth 8.2 (2011): 116-156. Print.
Maddison, Sarah, and Frances Shaw. "Feminist Perspectives on Social Movement Research." Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2007. 434-454.
Raising a family of three children is no easy feat to begin with, and the Stocker family of Toronto, Ontario has made one decision regarding their new baby that will hardly make it any easier. Mrs. Stocker gave birth to her third child on new years day of 2011, and accompanying the proud new parents e-mail to friends and families announcing the baby’s birth, was a rather controversial statement; "We 've decided not to share Storm 's sex for now -- a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm 's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...)." (CTV 1) Mr. & Mrs. Stocker had decided to raise their new baby boy or girl, with out …show more content…
This case as analyzed through intersectionality is perfect to highlight the many ways in which race, class, gender and sexuality all come to act as social forces on us as we develop in our given environment (Kennedy & Hellen 36). As we watch Storm mature into whatever Storm aspires to be, Storm will be simultaneously turning back millennia of stereotypes, biases, roles and assumptions that have been entrenched in our global society. The potential for real social change stems from the point where other individuals who have been raised and socialized similarly to storm, organize and create social movements to further awareness and understanding of neo-gendered individuals (Madison & Shaw 435). In this way Storm and their contemporaries will show us how the binary concepts of man/women have been one of the most pervasive forces locking us within a certain realm of action and understanding dictated strictly by the reproductive organs we were born with. Who we love, how we love are all subject to change as "Our identities are a fluid assemblage of the meanings and behaviors that we construct from values, images and prescriptions we find in the world around us" (Kimmel …show more content…
N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Oct. 2012. .
Biber, Sharlene Nagy. Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2007. Print.
Harding, Sandra. "Feminist Standpoints." Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2007. 46-64. Print.
Kennedy, Natacha, and Mark Hellen. "Transgender children: more than a theoretical challenge." Graduate Journal of Social Science 7 (2010): 25-42. Print.
Kimmel, Michael S.. The gendered society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.
Lahelma, Elina. "Female Paths To Adulthood In A Country Of ‘Genderless Gender’." Gender & Education 24.1 (2012): 1-13. Academic Search Complete. Web.
Luecke, Julie. "Working with Transgender Children and Their Classmates in Pre-Adolescence: Just Be Supportive."Journal of LGBT Youth 8.2 (2011): 116-156. Print.
Maddison, Sarah, and Frances Shaw. "Feminist Perspectives on Social Movement Research." Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2007. 434-454.