From the follow up article
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“I would encourage people to stretch their imaginations and try to see the creativity and exploration in Storm’s parents’ efforts to create gender freedom for their child, rather than jumping to condemnation or criticism,” she said, adding people should take a moment to ask themselves, “Why does this get me so riled up?”
Dr. Ken Zucker, a psychologist and head of the gender identity service for children at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, thinks the story has struck a nerve because it made people think about issues, such as sex and gender, that are normally taken for granted.
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That's really it I think. People just sort of assume that boys are like boys and girls are like girls and there is boy things and girl things and why would anybody even question such things?