Britain Erupts in Debate as This Morning Guest Declares: ‘My Child Has No Gender’ – Viewers Left in Total Shock by the Truth behind her Family.

A This Morning guest opened up about why she has refused to tell her four-year-old child if they are a boy or a girl during Thursday’s episode of the show.

Leah Borromeo appeared on the sofa to chat to hosts Ben Shepherd, 50, and Cat Deeley, 48, about her reasoning behind why she doesn’t want to subject her kid Riley to gender stereotypes.

She told the pair: ‘My partner and I are quite committed to equity. We both saw and observed how we were raised as children and we got a little annoyed.

‘When I was being brought up, telling my mum “why are boys always allowed to do everything they want to do, but girls sit still and be quiet?”

‘And for me that seemed really unfair, the same thing for my male partner as well.

‘He was undergoing a lot of things as a kid, being told and being restricted from doing things within his upbringing.

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I refuse to tell my four-year-old child if they’re a boy or a girl – it’s the only way for them to be truly free and s3x is only important at the doctor’s office

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Leah Borromeo appeared on the sofa to chat to hosts Ben Shepherd, 50, and Cat Deeley , 48, to chat about her reasoning behind why she doesn’t want to subject her kid Riley to gender stereotypes

‘Not by his parents, but by other people, presuming that he was of course being good at sports. this was all the stuff that doesn’t sit right with us.’

So Leah and her partner decided to raise their child as ‘gender free’, meaning that they haven’t told anyone if Riley is a boy or a girl.

‘It’s not saying you are one of either binary,’ Leah explained.

‘So their s3x is their s3x. So when we are at the doctors, anywhere else, or a passport for instance, or their birth cert, their s3x is their s3x.

‘The gender is, of course, how you feel inside…

‘What we’re concerned about, or focused on is making sure they are able to discover what they are inside.

‘Other parents who are in the gender creative community, or gender free community, some of them do use a binary pronoun.

‘But they still allow their children the freedom to play and to dress and to act in whatever way they chose.

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So Leah and her partner decided to raise their child as ‘gender free’, meaning that they haven’t told anyone if Riley is a boy or a girl

‘One thing we’ve observed is that, once you assign a gender to someone, immediately people will change their behaviour.

‘We notice this in the delivery room. When we heard people talking about newborns having such strong muscles, being brave little soldiers, being delicate princesses.

‘They’re just babies. They’re both strong because they made it this far and they are both delicate because they need us to survive.’

Cat was interested to know how her family and friends reacted when they told them that they were not going to tell them if they had a little boy or girl.

Leah explained: ‘We had a lockdown baby so it was a little bit stranger than other circumstances.

‘Riley’s first interaction with any family member was through a Zoom call.

‘When we did that, I was just tired, Riley was nuzzling, half asleep. Somebody in my family just went “Boy or a girl?” and I said “Well they haven’t told us yet.”‘

Cat asked: ‘What was the response?’

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Leah replied: ‘In admin stakes of things, you have to get a birth certificate, if they ask for a s3x, we provide it’

Leah replied: ‘It wrong-footed some of them because there was quite a few on the screen.

‘So I couldn’t really see which ones, I just kind of responded to the one that was asking and someone said: “You must know?” and I went: “No.”‘

Ben pointed out: ‘And interestingly, when you say “They”, you don’t mean the midwives and the doctors, you mean Riley! Riley hasn’t told you yet whether they are a boy or a girl.’

Leah replied: ‘Correct.’

‘Which is an extraordinary position to take,’ Ben continued.

‘It’s unusual to hear, we’re both parents, we’ve been there, your family are waiting to find out, whether it’s a surprise or not.

‘I wonder how complicated it’s been for you and your partner and equally for Riley?’

Leah replied: ‘In admin stakes of things, you have to get a birth certificate, if they ask for a s3x, we provide it.

‘If they ask for a gender, usually what we do, call them up, send an email and say hey this is what we’re doing.

‘Often times they say they didn’t realise we they put that on the form because they presume s3x equals gender and gender equals s3x.

‘Often times they say you don’t have to answer that, or here is a third option.’

Cat and Ben were also interested to know how it has been for Riley being in nursery.

Leah said: ‘The nursery was like “We’ve not encountered this before.

‘”Let’s bring you in and let’s have a conversation.”

‘Then they brought in other speakers to have a conversation  about it. So all the staff and all the parents, the people in the wider nursery group, suddenly got hipped to it. and they were like “Oh yeah that’s really good”.

‘Other people were really quite accepting of it. They took it in their stride.’

Ben asked what Leah thinks about people that think she is making Riley’s life more complicated, and she said: ‘I totally hear that.

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‘We have had not much, we chose the primary school that they are going to because of their accepting approach to educating kids.

‘A lot of children there are already in that mindset.

‘So what we want to do now is to build up Riley’s resilience and build up their ability to be able to answer this for themselves.’

When asked if Riley is going to chose, Leah said: ‘If they want to, the pressure isn’t on them to chose.

‘They don’t have to. If they feel they need to, they will.’