People play many roles in life. An actor who assumes the same role over and over, can said to be typecast. Scarcely anyone can imagine Jack Nicholson and John Wayne switching roles. Both men accepted the roles into which they were cast early in their careers.

Baby Storm's parents, hoping to avoid the child's being “typecast” based on societal expectations, chose to keep the child's gender private for now. Accusations rang across the English-speaking world: “A psychological experiment�...

The announcement that a Canadian couple had chosen to "keep private for now" the sex  (often referred to as "gender") of their baby Storm launched an avalanche of opinions around the world, a great number of which severely criticized their decision... and their worthiness to parent. As a retired educator and the mother who managed to make PLENTY of errors in guiding her two now-grown sons, I'd like to seek a kinder perspective.

Perhaps we can attempt to understand (though not necessarily ag...