'Theybies' trend: Parents refuse to assign gender to children at birth in 60 ... trends now

A new generation of parents are refusing to assign their children a gender at birth with the growing trend slammed as a 'scary experiment'.

The parents are instead allowing their children to decide whether or not they are a boy or a girl regardless of their physical anatomy.

They avoid using gendered pronouns when their child is born and refer to them as 'they' or 'them' with the genderless babies known as 'theybies'.

Some parents have opened up on the new trend while experts have warned about the consequences in an upcoming 60 Minutes segment set to air on Sunday.

The trend comes after it was revealed Australian taxpayers were forking out for a new education program that teaches children doctors 'decide' gender at birth. 

One mother explained they wanted to give freedom to their child to choose their own identity.

'We didn't assign a gender at birth … We're not trying to eliminate gender, we're just really helping kids find their own path to it,' she said.

Another parent added: 'I'm letting this little person be who they want to be.' 

The parent revealed they had received some backlash from the public with strangers on the street confronting them about it.

Sky News host Erin Molan described the trend as a 'little bit scary'.

'You don't want to tell parents how to parent,' she said.

'But I mean, even to the extent that it's an experiment, which was just a direct quote there – I don't think kids should be used in that kind of way. This stuff is going too far.

'If your child, by the stage and the time they get to a position where they're mature enough and think that they are not the gender they were assigned at birth, then deal with it then. Do what needs to be done to make sure that child is happy and fulfilled.

'I just think

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