What is treating a baby as a boy or treating a baby as a girl? Pink frilly things for one and blue stripes for the other?
Basically, yeah. I just mean little things like that.
It seems like the articles you posted are on about the big stereotypes like "boys shouldn't cry" etc, which are obviously bad and shouldn't be enforced by any parent.
But in the case of little things like the color of the baby's blanket or their first toy, is it actually so harmful to get a daughter a pink blanket and a son a toy firetruck?
The constant criticisms toward "heteronormative colors" were always something I found confusing, should we not allow the colors pink and blue to be used at all in regards to children's merchandise? Do we raise every child in grey clothes and grey rooms until they discover their identity?
I'm being genuine, if assuming a baby's gender is a harmful thing, then how do we raise kids? I find it hard to imagine a way to remain 100% gender neutral in regards to raising someone. Because everything is connected to gender in some way shape or form, for better or worse.
Which I guess usually leads into the even bigger topic of "abolish gender it serves no purpose" but that's an even bigger hurdle.