"One way of shielding children from gender stereotypes: Keep their biological sex secret.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Three-year-old twins Zyler and Kadyn Sharpe scurried around the boys and girls clothing racks of a narrow consignment store filled with toys.
Zyler, wearing rainbow leggings, scrutinized a pair of hot-pink-and-purple sneakers. Kadyn, in a T-Rex shirt, fixated on a musical cube that flashed colorful lights.
At a glance, the only discernible difference between these fraternal twins is their hair — Zyler’s is brown and Kadyn’s is blond.
Is Zyler a boy or a girl?
How about Kadyn?
That’s a question their parents, Nate and Julia Sharpe, say only the twins can decide.
The Cambridge, Mass., couple represent a small group of parents raising “theybies” — children being brought up without gender designation from birth.
A Facebook community for these parents currently claims about 220 members across the U.S..."
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