It's a 'theyby': How one Florida family is raising a gender-neutral child 

“I’m raising my child without gender” Makes absolutely everything about gender.

So Sparrow is clearly a boy since she slipped up and said him at the beginning of the video, so even her brain knows it's a ridiculous notion

That moment when you're so obsessed with gender that you forget that "baby" applies to any and all babies.

it's the year 2087 we no longer identify as genders. We identify as different flavors of Doritos. I'm coolranch and this is my story.

This woman NEEDS to be seeing a psychiatrist ASAP! She is NOT fit to be a parent!

They are breaking their own kid, on purpose. He will end up hating them for this.

She said: "Our family is unique". Every family is unique. I think she should say to herself:" Our family is messed up."

Feel so bad for those kids. This is what happens when we celebrate insanity in society

Why’s your name Sparrow? Because my mom is confused with her own gender

That makes as much sense as me telling my black son he's not black you can pick your color later in life.

Unfortunately she is showing signs of Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy. She clearly has issues, claims to be non-binary whilst displaying clearly female and is now involving her children in her mental illness. It is very sad as I believe she needs genuine help/therapy and will only result in her children needing the same. To accomodate this is to be complicit.

Has someone contacted Child Protective Services about this lunatic?

Sparrow is a BOY :) ... She keeps caching herself saying 'he' :) LOL

Selfish parents using their child as a social experiment.

1:19 “we use they/them for his...-ahh sparrows pronouns.” Lmfao she slipped up a minute into this!

How do you "feel" like a boy? I've been a male my whole life and I have no idea what feeling like a man is like. I just am a man. There's no one feeling.

The nose ring and the name “sparrow” explains it all.

What I noticed when I watched a special on a Swedish family raising "Theybies" is an "unconscious bias" to purposefully steer the child towards opposite sex identification. The child, they acknowledged, was biologically a boy. But, the caretaking partner would take the child shopping and light up around dresses and tell the child how pretty the dress was and ask if he wanted it. You could see that his desire to please his parent factored into his willingness to express an interest in the dress. I believe the unconscious bias of these non-binary parents is to steer their children to like and be interested in toys, clothes, and activities generally associated with the opposite sex. Since these parents do know their children's sex, they, perhaps unknowingly, get excited and show preferences for opposite sex activities in an effort to reinforce their belief that gender is fluid. This social experiment is, therefore, already doomed to failure from the moment someone has to change a baby's diaper but wants to push a gender bending agenda.

I’m raising a boy and am in no way limiting his access to any toy/activity/clothing he wants to wear. The gender is never even an issue. It seems that for someone who is all about gender neutral she sure is consumed with it. So pretentious.

2 dudes wearing dresses sleeping with the same woman is their family? How confusing for the children and eventually they chose their own gender? Total insanity!

Identity is a large part of human mentality. This will do nothing but damage.

She has NO clue. I feel for the children. Parenting is NOT a movement.

What I don't understand is how come grown folks take the time to interview a mental ill person who needs her kids to be taken from her as soon as possible??!!

She clearly referred to her child as a boy then desperately backtracked when she realised her own clanger!! Her little boy is being used as a social experiment, it’s cruel. I have two sons and I have never forced any particular type of play/colours/pastimes/behaviour etc on them. You can be gender neutral without even thinking about it or spouting about it and certainly without subjecting your child to this sort of lunacy!

This parent is the most annoying they I’ve ever watched

Nothing like experimenting with your child!

Obstetrician: It’s a boy. Did you just call my new born baby a boy, I will sue this hospital.

“How do you feel the answer of this math problem should be? Because we’ve added 2 and 3 but if 5 doesn’t ‘feel’ like a good answer then you can actually write any answer you want. Because feelings are better than logic.” This kind of reasoning is ridiculous 😂

This "BOY" is going to have a brutal time in school.

my parents were open forty years ago totally open without hiding the fact I was a female.I could clinb tree and play soccer as I could play with dolls and make up.I had manu dolls and I climbed lots of trees. I was a happy child and I became a strong happy woman. is it impossible nowadays being open parents without being stupid parents?

Has a son - Gives him a girl's name - tells him he's not gendered. Has a daughter - raises her as a girl

Don’t they have medication yet for this illness?

The bullies will now taunt sparrow with "dont be they" instead of "dont be gay"

I have 4 girls and one of them would be considered a "Tom boy". She asked me recently if it is ok for girls to play with dinosoars, tools and dirt bikes I said absolutely it is ok! Girls can do anything boys can do. My daughter knows she is a girl because I raised her knowing she is a girl but she still knows that she can play with any toy she likes, wear any clothing she likes and love any colour she likes, can't it just be that simple? Rather than her seeing her genitals and being confused as to why I am asking her to wait and tell me if she is a boy or girl? Children rely on parents to guide them so if I am putting confusion in her head saying I don't know what gender she is and she needs to decide I would imagine that would throw the guidance off and make her question it even more.

This news lady didn't even conduct an interview. She asked no tough questions. She did the whole thing with an attitude of acquiescence. Like, "OK, you're right and everyone else in history has always been wrong, so tell us how you became so enlightened and what's it's been like being such a pioneer."

20:50 please people listen to this section, she’s admitting the child will need to explain to her peers why she’s ‘different’, .. Breaks my heart when she’s saying about the child wanting to be called so and so pro nouns around her school friends and other nouns around family this is showing me that this is the beginnings of an effed up kid ❤️

Hey, we are parents and we don’t get enough attention... so let’s use this baby to get weird attention

At around 1:15 even mom slips up and starts to say “his” before correcting herself.

The little girl got excited because of the name "Demi-Girl". Sounds like a super hero, its like do you want to be Bat Man or Demi-Girl?!

When will the madness end? It won't.. there will always be people like this who will just go against what they think is 'normal' in society because it makes them feel unique and special. My heart breaks for those poor kids.

Every once in a while I find a good case for government forced sterilization...looking and listening to this woman...EXCELLENT CASE.

I wonder how you would feel as a parent if your child committed suicide in their early teens from pure lack or direction/meaning and grounding in their life from an upbringing that basically told them you dont fit anywhere. Transgender people already have an incredibly high rate of suicide compared to the general population. Upward of 40% by most studies. Its not parenting what these people are doing and i feel so sorry for these poor children.

Would you also encourage someone with anorexia to try to lose more weight because they don't "feel" thin enough?

Her smug little smile and sitting their laughing and waving her foot. This person just needs a life. I can't watch any more.

These people are lunatics.

Its truly insane how we have gotten to a point in society when we cant let our boy be "pressured" into being a boy, just in case he'd rather be a girl. Or visa versa. I'm seriously losing faith in humanity.

Damn feels bad for that baby. Growing up not knowing your identity.😢

"It helped my mother by 'being forced' to use gender pronouns."... ... ... sooo, what kind of choice does her children have at their decisions ???

I havent read one positive comment. And i agree with all of them. Poor Sparrow. He will be forever the baby bird who wasnt allowed to spread his wings and fly.

The only reason her oldest daughter was exploring pronouns at 3 1/2, was because of her but job of a mom talking about it incessantly and literally forcing her into it. Childhood is about playing with GI Joes but also wearing a dress if you want to. That doesn’t mean you have to have psychological conversations with your 2 1/2 year old about what she wants to identify as. You’re absolutely abusing those children.

And at some point she forgot about calling the baby "they" and said "he". So, Sparrow is a baby boy living in a family of three women who decided to become gender neutral or what ever they decided to be, but they should not confuse a small child who can't understand about gender or sex yet. The child can decide about his own gender when he is ready, or when it naturally comes to him to choose by himself. So far, for all what I am concerned his anatomy and chromosomes says that he is a boy or a male if you prefer. They, in fact, have chosen the gender for the baby already by determining that the baby is 'they' - that should be an 'it' since 'they' is plural, by the way.

"I'm kind of a girl, and kind of a person" I'm kind of watching this video, and kind of CRINGING

Let's be serious. This isn't about the child or some deep held belief in a cultural shift towards a more gender homogeneous society. This is your desire for attention and 15 minutes of fame at the expense of the child, otherwise this would be a very private decision and not in the media.

This is child abuse.

Well, i finaly got to understand why we used to burn people in the middle age ...

The mom: We have never slipped up. Also the mom: Calls him by his proper pronouns less than 2 minutes in.

“Kids don’t know what gender is up until age 2 - age 5. My kids knew... because I taught them.

To anyone who thinks this does no harm...there is clearly a difference between male and female healthcare needs due to different parts. So your denial of their gender can only go so far. If you have a boy claiming to be a girl he doesn't need a gynecologist, he needs a urologist and prostate exam. And when he impregnates someone accidentally because he doesn't realize how his parts work, then what...? Or vis versa if you have a girl thinking she's a boy or neither she ends up with untreated breast or cervical cancer because she isn't getting female treatments. I don't think these parents are thinking ahead.

THEY ARE TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS.

22:49 "People in the cisgender regular society, I think they spend a lot of energy thinking about gender and genetalia and presentation versus our family that kinda doesn't." I really feel like the parents actually made everything about gender too... does not mean they are gender fluid, non-binary, anti-gender or whatever are all still assigned genders according to their definition. Until now, I am still not convinced. I bet they are also not convinced since she constantly slipped up the fact that Sparrow's gender is a boy. You can also hear that she hesitated a little bit and immediately emphasise the pronoun 'They/Them' when referencing the children... It's psychologically obvious that she is having a hard time too and glorifying it -.-

Child abuse.

It is not picking up steam. Don't try to make this what it is not media.

After watching this, I thought to myself... 'This could easily be viewed as a medical assessment interview, where the interviewer is actually an undercover psychiatrist trying to get inside the head of a delusional inmate from a mental institution... and _playing along with her_ to measure the precise level of insanity!' And after the 30-minute assessment, the result turns out to be an emphatic; "Clearly, this person is not ready to be released yet!" What I find terrifying, is that this behaviour is now accepted and considered OK, and even 'normal.' It's NOT OK and it's definitely NOT normal... it has to STOP, and fast... before the minds of an entire generation are completely destroyed!

The fact she slipped up means she even knows this is ridiculous.

Also, your daughter totally didn’t make the decision to use they/them just to imitate you. Kids never try to impress their parents through imitation.

Anyone else notice that this woman slipped up and said his before she corrected herself posthaste? This is insanity! My generation is messed up! I’m ashamed to be apart of the millennial generation.

In a Good Morning Britain interview, Ari speaks of childism: not allowing a child to choose who they are by infantilizing them. That's when I had enough of this nonsense. Ari says that since a toddler has no idea about gender identity, it's not okay to choose a gender for them (conveniently glossing over the fact that the kid has genitals and has a sex either way). So Ari forced Sparrow to NOT have a gender, until such time as Sparrow is ready to choose one, if ever. I am sorry, Ari, but that is just as much childism as treating your child as the gender that corresponds to their sex. I would even say it is child abuse, because you are teaching your child to disregard what's between their legs, as though that were not part of who they are. I was born female. I always knew I was a little girl. But I was also not forced any gender roles upon, which left me free to be both genders, or even to not have one, which is pretty much how I felt most of the time as a child: I was merely a child, not a girl or a boy. I wish I could go back to those days, things were so much more simple. This is what Ari has taken away from Sparrow, this very brief period of life where you don't have to worry about anything. So because I was merely a child, I was allowed to wear whatever colour I liked (never wore pink), to wear skirts or pants, to play with dolls or hand tools, etc. Now that I am an adult, I know that I was born female, I have female biological characteristics and I am fine with that. I am fine with being called she/her, it is what I was always called. And I am non binary, because I was not forced any gender roles upon. I am a non binary female (as in I have female sex characteristics) who is perfectly fine keeping her traditional pronouns, and I am also heterosexual. No amount of misgendering me can ever change that, because I know that that's who I am, and so I don't care if I get misgendered. I am just as much a woman as I am a man, and I feel perfectly comfortable with that. I was able to come to that conclusion-without being forced to "explore gender" (Ari's words) as a toddler. I was just allowed to be, accepted for who I was, along with my genitals. That is how I NATURALLY came to the conclusion as an adult that I am both genders. Ari is keeping Sparrow from learning to live with the original genitals as part of Sparrow. That to me is nothing short of child abuse. That is also making a child believe that they can be whomever they choose to be, when the reality is that you can't be whom you choose to be. No one consciously chooses who they are, everyone becomes who they always had the potential to be and realize who they are some time in late adolescence. Ari is impeding that potential in Sparrow. If Sparrow is meant to be non binary as an adult, Sparrow can come to that conclusion without being forced to be preoccupied with it as a GODDAMN TODDLER. It is PERSONAL and none of the parents' business. There is a form of child abuse called adultification. That is what this is, troubling the mind of a kid with stuff that kids are not ready to deal with. Another form of child abuse is projection. That is what this is, projecting the parents' gender identities onto the child. It is no different from heterosexual parents denying their son for being gay. Both types of abuse are characteristic of narcissistic parents. That kid's childhood is being robbed from them, and it might have grave psychological consequences once that child is an adult. These people are enmeshed and have serious boundary issues. If Ari wants to accuse people of childism, no need to look any farther than a mirror: Sparrow is being childified by Ari and the rest of the family.

Sparrow is a boy. The mother slipped and started to say "he" early in the interview!!!

Time to hit the reset button on this lost world!

Hahahaha what a freak show. The one interviewing is a freak too for even entertaining this.

We all have masculine and feminine traits therefore I cannot imagine how confusing it must be for this baby to have to "choose" as he/she grows up. How arrogant it is to be ASSIGNING the non binary gender to one's baby above of simply respecting biology and allow the baby the experience of growing up and be treated as the sex they actually are.

My daughter is 5. She has friends that are boys and girls. When she plays with her boy friends and they bring out a tractor or planes or trucks she plays with them. When she plays with her girlfriends and they have barbies and my little ponies she plays with them. She plays legos and building blocks with all her friends. Her boy friend loves to bake with his mom, my daughter goes to Judo in a class that is mostly boys. It's OK to enjoy all kinds of toys and activities... Where do people like this woman get the idea that we have to consider them gender less in order for them to enjoy all kinds of toys, clothes and colors? A boy can love ballet, a girl can love soccer, it doesn't mean we need to question their gender!

Taking your baby out in public and correcting everyone who makes a comment. Gotta use gender neutral clothes too, what’s that, grey, beige? Buy dolls and trucks? What a nutter.

Lady you need help... What are you teaching your kids 😩🔫

Can we make a law about this being illegal. This is child abuse.

"My own mother did not know Sparrow's genitals for the first three months" (shudder) You mean to tell me they still keep in touch? Lol

When did we start letting kids run the show while we just sit back and encourage them in whatever psychobabble ideas that they concoct? No. I will be the adult and my children will learn from me, I will not be learning what gender is from my children or people who look, talk and act like this thing here.

Let children choose their own destiny. What could possibly go wrong?

I watched another video about these folks on good morning Britain and they mentioned that one of their children decided that they were non-binary at 4ish. They said that they had grown up around the LGBTQ+ community and that made them more open to their option. That’s all fine and do as you do, doesn’t bother me, but if the kids parents were totally immersed in the LGBTQ+ community which would mean their children were too, then I don’t think, as far as I know, that they were very aware of the heterosexual community which would mean I don’t think they were given a true and fair chance to make a complete decision on their own. If you want your child to completely make their own choice on this topic, shouldn’t you let your child be around and fully aware of ALL aspects of the gender debate?

I hope these children grow up happy and successful. HOWEVER, Hazel was *five* when they started listing genders to her and "Demi-Girl" sounds like a superhero (like Elasti-Girl). Of course, the kid is going to choose that (as opposed something more clinical sounding like antegender or cisgender girl). Then, the parents reinforce that expressed extra-special "identity" by treating them as such - not as a cisgender girl but as a demi-girl (to do otherwise, in the words of this person to Pierce Morgan, is "childist".) Parents need to lead the way, not children. I really hope this social experiment with kids does not become a prominent trend. The kids are going to end up so confused.

1:19 she just about says "his." *insert eye roll here*

We're getting closer and closer to the last days. Sin abounds. Romans says God will give people over their debased minds. Yikes!

She said if her child asks her in a few years if its a boy or a girl, that she would say its their decision. 'Do you feel like a boy?? Do you feel like a girl??' How can they child know what it feels like to be either? Its led to believe its being both and neither at the same time. The reason I know im a boy is because I do not know what it feels like to be a girl.

All I'm getting from this whole interview is that she's told us a million times that sparrow is a boy!

They: pronoun "used to identify two or more people" " or things previously mentioned" "or easily identified" By: adverb "as to go past" noun: variant spelling bye Theyby: A child mentally neglected by a parent/parent's confused on self, low self esteem. Fyi:: Regardless of boy or girl there is not a discrimination to toys, my male cousin's grew up playing barbies to LOL this is seeking attention. I will love these people to start a RU-vid just to prove that child will grow up with psychological issues. There is a difference from letting the child Express their self and sheltering a child from not knowing what gender is...what gender they are.

Marshall Ray Marshall Ray The 5-year old who told her she was a 'demi girl', that is a clear cut case of parent pleasing. She KNOWS, just being a regular cis-gendered white girl would not please her mom, but it's truly how she feels. This "demi-girl" thing seemed like a way to have something close to her own reality and still please her mom.

My question is how will they know if they want to be a boy or girl that day when they are a young child if they don’t even know the difference? If I had no idea what the difference was I’d be confused 🤷‍♀️

If she isn't capable or refuses to teach her children about the most basic thing, she is failing them.

We have a huge group of gay men that want to be separated from this abuse of children. You might as well put a sign on their forehead saying “pick on me.” I’ve seen this abuser on other platforms and she can’t just make up weird things and be smug about it when people don’t understand what she is talking about. Theybe, childism etc. She couldn’t more of a smug, weird lady who is in a relationship with more than one person.

What the hell is a half girl half person!!! Lmao, and the interviewer sat there with a straight face when she said that. Omg this world is so messed!!

the more confused we become the more control we will accept

If I was brought up as gender neutral and not as a little girl I would genuinely be devastated

I totally respect the idea of letting kids play with whatever toy they want, but this has gone way too far

That little girl is already brainwashed. I laughed when she says " I tell them I have a sibling"

I now know Sparrow’s gender, he is a male. She accidentally said he. Which is ironic because I thought genitals don’t define gender. So if Sparrow had male genitalia why did she instinctively say, “he”?

Lord have mercy on that child

Could you imagine being this kid and someday watching your mom talking with a reporter for all to hear about your genitals?? "My own mother didn't know Sparrow's genitals" that sounds so creepy.

I would never do this to my child.

1:18 she almost says he as the pronouns for the "theybies". She probably just revealed the gender.

I'm scared for her children as they grow older.