Canadian Couple Decides to Raise 'Genderless' Baby

(NewsCore) - A Canadian couple has decided to raise its four-month-old baby to be "genderless" to protect its right to choose its own sex, The Daily reported Tuesday.

While there is no biological ambiguity about Storm Witterick's genitalia, parents Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, refuse to say whether the child is male or female.

The couple believes in giving the youngster the right to choose his or her own gender, free from the pressures of social norms.

The only people who know the child's sex are older brothers, Jazz, five, and Kio, two, a close family friend, and the two midwives who helped deliver Storm at the family's Toronto home on New Year's Day.

"When the baby comes out, even the people who love you the most and know you intimately, the first question they ask is, 'is it a boy or a girl?'" Witterick told a Canadian parenting website.

The couple told friends their refusal to answer such questions was "a tribute to freedom in place of limitation."

"If you really want to get to know someone, you don't ask what's between their legs," said Stocker.