Nothing is wrong with gender neutrality. However, referring to one’s child in gender neutral form is not (that) common. Gender neutrality is there to avoid dis

Nothing is wrong with gender neutrality. However, referring to one’s child in gender neutral form is not (that) common. Gender neutrality is there to avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than another [0]. That is hardly the case when referring to one’s own child. Hence my follow-up assumption in the same comment that it might be for privacy reasons. The first statement in that comment on gender neutrality was led by the media taking the whole gender neutrality thing a bit too far nowadays. Some sources just follow the hype instead of looking at the argument for using it as stated above. That is my own opinion though and might be a deluded view on media articles i came across that went into the “did you just assume my gender” mode for stories where gender was totally irrelevant. I do realize the first sentence of my comment was a phrased a bit provoking because of the whole media thing. Sorry if that offended you and provoked you into this question (comment). Hope this answer helps to show I was not here to fight gender neutrality as a whole. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality