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* ExactWords: [[spoiler: The Parent's Association agreed to accept the results of X's examination without fuss, so when the experts ruled that X doesn't to need to follow boy/girl rules to be well-adjusted, they just have to suck it up despite their displeasure.]]
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* ExactWords: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Parent's Association agreed to accept the results of X's examination without fuss, so when the experts ruled that X doesn't to need to follow boy/girl rules to be well-adjusted, they just have to suck it up despite their displeasure.]]
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* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: This is what proves that X doesn't have an identity problem and can live happily without the labels of "boy" or "girl".]]
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* ItIsDehumanizing: {{Subverted}}; the story defaults to "it" pronouns to refer to X in lieu of "he" or "she", but as the rest of the story should tell you, it's not at all meant to be dehumanizing.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: {{Subverted}}; {{Subverted|Trope}}; the story defaults to "it" pronouns to refer to X in lieu of "he" or "she", but as the rest of the story should tell you, it's not at all meant to be dehumanizing.
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* MathematiciansAnswer: Whenever asked whether their child is a boy or girl, the Joneses smile and reply "it's an X!" Alas, this is seldom a satisfactory answer. [[spoiler: When all of X's friends ask the same question about X's new baby sibling, X replies "Don't you know? it's a Y!"]]
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: {{Defied}}, as per the experiment. The Joneses must never tell X that ''she'' shouldn't climb rocks and get dirty, or that ''he'' [[MenDontCry shouldn't cry from injury]].
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: {{Defied}}, as per the experiment. The Joneses must never tell X that ''she'' shouldn't climb rocks and get dirty, or that ''he'' [[MenDontCry shouldn't cry from injury]].
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* MathematiciansAnswer: Whenever asked whether their child is a boy or girl, the Joneses smile and reply "it's an X!" Alas, this is seldom a satisfactory answer. [[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When all of X's friends ask the same question about X's new baby sibling, X replies "Don't you know? it's a Y!"]]
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty:{{Defied}}, {{Defied|Trope}}, as per the experiment. The Joneses must never tell X that ''she'' shouldn't climb rocks and get dirty, or that ''he'' [[MenDontCry shouldn't cry from injury]].
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* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler: The experts at X's examination shed these when marveled by X's self-security in spite of being neither boy or girl.]]
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** When the Parent's Association demands that X go through a rigorous ''x''amination, their ''x''pected outcomes for X are either to be determined as a boy or girl and expected to conform as such, or be labeled as a "mixed-up misfit" and ''x''pelled. [[spoiler: X [[spoiler:X ultimately affirms to be neither boy or girl, and is simply too secure and well-adjusted to be considered a "mixed-up misfit" either.]]
* TearsOfJoy:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The experts at X's examination shed these when marveled by X's self-security in spite of being neither boy or girl.]]
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-->In our opinion, young X here... [[spoiler: is just about the ''least'' mixed-up child we've ever examined!]]
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** Gender roles are ultimately pointless restrictions in the grade greater scheme of things.
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* LetXBeTheUnknown: When the Joneses are asked what gender their baby is, their response is invariably, well, "it's an X!" - this is part of the experiment to make sure X is raised without any specific gender norms.
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* AdultFear: The Joneses are understandably worried for X when everyone around them refuses to give X the time of day for not being defined as "boy" or "girl", especially so when the Parent's Association demands an examination to have X conform or be expelled.
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'''''X: A Fabulous Child’s Story''''' is a 1972 ShortStory written by [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] author Creator/LoisGould for ''Magazine/{{Ms}} Magazine'', later published under ChildrensLiterature in 1978. The story would later be adapted into an 11-minute animated short in 2016 under the title '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYn9izT9gc Baby X]]''''', directed by Creator/BrendanBradley and featuring vocal talent such as Creator/YuriLowenthal and Creator/MatthewMercer.
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'''''X: A Fabulous Child’s Story''''' is a 1972 ShortStory written by [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] author Creator/LoisGould for ''Magazine/{{Ms}} Magazine'', later published under ChildrensLiterature in 1978. The story would later be adapted into an 11-minute animated short in 2016 under the title '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYn9izT9gc Baby X]]''''', directed by Creator/BrendanBradley and featuring vocal talent such as Creator/YuriLowenthal Creator/YuriLowenthal, Creator/MatthewMercer, Creator/TaraPlatt, and Creator/MatthewMercer.
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** Being happy with who ''who'' you are is far more important having a neat label for what ''what'' you are.
* DistinctiveAppearances: As another aspect of X's AmbiguousGender, X is often described as having a girl's dimpled cheeks and a boy's husky biceps.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The Parent's Association are a group of ''gender''-normative crusaders.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: X's influence encourages the other kids to to start enjoying things meant for the other gender. Susie starts playing on the monkey bars, Jim starts playing with his sister's dolls, the twins Joe and Peggy begin trading their usual toys, interests, and chores, proving to better at their new non-traditional activities.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: X's influence encourages the other kids to to start enjoying things meant for the other gender. Susie starts playing on the monkey bars, Jim starts playing with his sister's dolls, the twins Joe and Peggy begin trading their usual toys, interests, and chores, proving themselves to be much better at their new non-traditional activities.
* OpenMindedParent: The Joneses value their unique child's happiness and healthiness above all else.
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** The Joneses' first major hurdle when providing for their gender-neutral child: what do they give X when all of the children's clothes and toys {{toys}} are gender-specific? The Official Instruction Manual firmly recommends that they "buy plenty of everything".
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-->''"Other children have to obey the silly boy/girl rules because their parents taught them to. Lucky X, you don't have to stick to the rules at all. All you have to do is {{be yourself}}. P.S. We're not saying it will be easy."''
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'''''X: A Fabulous Child’s Story''''' is a 1972 ShortStory written by [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] author Creator/LoisGould for ''Magazine/{{Ms}} Magazine'', later published under ChildrensLiterature in 1978. The story would later be adapted into an 11-minute animated short in 2016 under the title '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYn9izT9gc Baby X]]''''', directed by Creator/BrendanBradley and featuring vocal talent such as Creator/YuriLowenthal and Creator/MatthewMercer.
The story is about a child named "X" who, as part of a scientific ''x''periment titled "Project Baby X", is born without a strict gender identity -- whether or not X is "he" or "she" is kept top-secret by the team of scientists and ''x''perts behind the project and X's adoptive parents, the Joneses. For the first few years of X's life, the Joneses raise their little X free of gender-specific ''x''pectations and limitations, as per their Official Instruction Manual, but it's unfortunately very clear to them that society has no tolerance for a child who cannot conform to their norms, especially when X starts school.
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!!This story provides ''x''amples of the following {{trope}}s:
* TheAce: Thanks to X's upbringing, X manages to ''x''cel at a multitude of activities; the SpellingBee, the boy's relay race, the girl's baking contest... well, X messed the last one up by forgetting to light the oven, but doesn't let that bother X'self. More importantly, the fact that X unabashedly enjoys X'self, win or lose, boy or girl, is what inspires the other kids to follow X's example.
* AdultFear: The Joneses are understandably worried for X when everyone around them refuses to give X the time of day for not being defined as "boy" or "girl", especially so when the Parent's Association demands an examination to have X conform or be expelled.
* AnAesop:
** Gender roles are ultimately pointless restrictions in the grade scheme of things.
** Being happy with who you are is far more important having a neat label for what you are.
** When faced with something that doesn't make sense to you, it's better for everyone to put forth the effort to understand it rather than railing against it.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: PlayedWith; the other kids at school shun X at first, but quickly get swayed by X's BlitheSpirit the next day. Their parents, on the other hand...
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: X ''does'' have a gender, but it'll remain a secret until the time is right, the point being that it shouldn't be made into such a big deal.
* BigBad: The Parent's Association are dead-set on stopping X's BlitheSpirit.
* BlitheSpirit: X's complete and total security with X'self is what convinces the other kids to stop following gender roles. After all, if X can enjoy both boy and girl things, that means X can have twice as much fun, right?
* ChildrenAreInnocent: DoubleSubverted; the other kids mock X at first, being seeing X indulge in boy and girl activities with X's head held high convinces them to do the same, since it allows for twice as many fun activities available to them.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: The Parent's Association agreed to accept the results of X's examination without fuss, so when the experts ruled that X doesn't to need to follow boy/girl rules to be well-adjusted, they just have to suck it up despite their displeasure.]]
* FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode: The moment when X is personally confronted with society's gender norms.
* GoodParents: The Joneses love their little X dearly and do their best to raise X without gender-specific expectations, which clearly pays off in the end.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: This is what proves that X doesn't have an identity problem and can live happily without the labels of "boy" or "girl".]]
* IconicOutfit: X's red-and-white checkered overalls. The other kids start wearing the same when they start rejecting gender norms.
* ItIsDehumanizing: {{Subverted}}; the story defaults to "it" pronouns to refer to X in lieu of "he" or "she", but as the rest of the story should tell you, it's not at all meant to be dehumanizing.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: X's influence encourages the other kids to to start enjoying things meant for the other gender. Susie starts playing on the monkey bars, Jim starts playing with his sister's dolls, the twins Joe and Peggy begin trading their usual toys, interests, and chores, proving to better at their new non-traditional activities.
* MathematiciansAnswer: Whenever asked whether their child is a boy or girl, the Joneses smile and reply "it's an X!" Alas, this is seldom a satisfactory answer. [[spoiler: When all of X's friends ask the same question about X's new baby sibling, X replies "Don't you know? it's a Y!"]]
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: {{Defied}}, as per the experiment. The Joneses must never tell X that ''she'' shouldn't climb rocks and get dirty, or that ''he'' [[MenDontCry shouldn't cry from injury]].
* MoralGuardians: The Parent's Association proves to be very strict about having boys and girls adhere to normative gender traditions, talent and personal happiness be damned.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** The teacher at X's school agrees to make small adjustments for X, such as having his students line up alphabetically instead of by boy/girl, and allows X to use the principal's bathroom in avoidance of a potential WhichRestroomDilemma.
** [[spoiler: The experts at X's examination decree that X, and by proxy X's friends, shouldn't be forced to follow boy/girl rules when they're well-adjusted and fine without them.]]
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: A child is born and raised without adherence to the gender binary as part of a top-secret scientific experiment, complete with a several-thousand page Official Instruction Manual.
* TakeAThirdOption:
** The Joneses' first major hurdle when providing for their gender-neutral child: what do they give X when all of the children's clothes and toys are gender-specific? The Official Instruction Manual firmly recommends that they "buy plenty of everything".
** When the Parent's Association demands that X go through a rigorous ''x''amination, their ''x''pected outcomes for X are either to be determined as a boy or girl and expected to conform as such, or be labeled as a "mixed-up misfit" and ''x''pelled. [[spoiler: X ultimately affirms to be neither boy or girl, and is simply too secure and well-adjusted to be considered a "mixed-up misfit" either.]]
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler: The experts at X's examination shed these when marveled by X's self-security in spite of being neither boy or girl.]]
* WhamLine:
-->In our opinion, young X here... [[spoiler: is just about the ''least'' mixed-up child we've ever examined!]]
* XMakesAnythingCool: Although we probably wouldn't recommend using it to name your own non-binary child.
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'''''X: A Fabulous Child’s Story''''' is a 1972 ShortStory written by [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] author Creator/LoisGould for ''Magazine/{{Ms}} Magazine'', later published under ChildrensLiterature in 1978. The story would later be adapted into an 11-minute animated short in 2016 under the title '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYn9izT9gc Baby X]]''''', directed by Creator/BrendanBradley and featuring vocal talent such as Creator/YuriLowenthal and Creator/MatthewMercer.
The story is about a child named "X" who, as part of a scientific ''x''periment titled "Project Baby X", is born without a strict gender identity -- whether or not X is "he" or "she" is kept top-secret by the team of scientists and ''x''perts behind the project and X's adoptive parents, the Joneses. For the first few years of X's life, the Joneses raise their little X free of gender-specific ''x''pectations and limitations, as per their Official Instruction Manual, but it's unfortunately very clear to them that society has no tolerance for a child who cannot conform to their norms, especially when X starts school.
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!!This story provides ''x''amples of the following {{trope}}s:
* TheAce: Thanks to X's upbringing, X manages to ''x''cel at a multitude of activities; the SpellingBee, the boy's relay race, the girl's baking contest... well, X messed the last one up by forgetting to light the oven, but doesn't let that bother X'self. More importantly, the fact that X unabashedly enjoys X'self, win or lose, boy or girl, is what inspires the other kids to follow X's example.
* AdultFear: The Joneses are understandably worried for X when everyone around them refuses to give X the time of day for not being defined as "boy" or "girl", especially so when the Parent's Association demands an examination to have X conform or be expelled.
* AnAesop:
** Gender roles are ultimately pointless restrictions in the grade scheme of things.
** Being happy with who you are is far more important having a neat label for what you are.
** When faced with something that doesn't make sense to you, it's better for everyone to put forth the effort to understand it rather than railing against it.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: PlayedWith; the other kids at school shun X at first, but quickly get swayed by X's BlitheSpirit the next day. Their parents, on the other hand...
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: X ''does'' have a gender, but it'll remain a secret until the time is right, the point being that it shouldn't be made into such a big deal.
* BigBad: The Parent's Association are dead-set on stopping X's BlitheSpirit.
* BlitheSpirit: X's complete and total security with X'self is what convinces the other kids to stop following gender roles. After all, if X can enjoy both boy and girl things, that means X can have twice as much fun, right?
* ChildrenAreInnocent: DoubleSubverted; the other kids mock X at first, being seeing X indulge in boy and girl activities with X's head held high convinces them to do the same, since it allows for twice as many fun activities available to them.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: The Parent's Association agreed to accept the results of X's examination without fuss, so when the experts ruled that X doesn't to need to follow boy/girl rules to be well-adjusted, they just have to suck it up despite their displeasure.]]
* FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode: The moment when X is personally confronted with society's gender norms.
* GoodParents: The Joneses love their little X dearly and do their best to raise X without gender-specific expectations, which clearly pays off in the end.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: This is what proves that X doesn't have an identity problem and can live happily without the labels of "boy" or "girl".]]
* IconicOutfit: X's red-and-white checkered overalls. The other kids start wearing the same when they start rejecting gender norms.
* ItIsDehumanizing: {{Subverted}}; the story defaults to "it" pronouns to refer to X in lieu of "he" or "she", but as the rest of the story should tell you, it's not at all meant to be dehumanizing.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: X's influence encourages the other kids to to start enjoying things meant for the other gender. Susie starts playing on the monkey bars, Jim starts playing with his sister's dolls, the twins Joe and Peggy begin trading their usual toys, interests, and chores, proving to better at their new non-traditional activities.
* MathematiciansAnswer: Whenever asked whether their child is a boy or girl, the Joneses smile and reply "it's an X!" Alas, this is seldom a satisfactory answer. [[spoiler: When all of X's friends ask the same question about X's new baby sibling, X replies "Don't you know? it's a Y!"]]
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: {{Defied}}, as per the experiment. The Joneses must never tell X that ''she'' shouldn't climb rocks and get dirty, or that ''he'' [[MenDontCry shouldn't cry from injury]].
* MoralGuardians: The Parent's Association proves to be very strict about having boys and girls adhere to normative gender traditions, talent and personal happiness be damned.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** The teacher at X's school agrees to make small adjustments for X, such as having his students line up alphabetically instead of by boy/girl, and allows X to use the principal's bathroom in avoidance of a potential WhichRestroomDilemma.
** [[spoiler: The experts at X's examination decree that X, and by proxy X's friends, shouldn't be forced to follow boy/girl rules when they're well-adjusted and fine without them.]]
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: A child is born and raised without adherence to the gender binary as part of a top-secret scientific experiment, complete with a several-thousand page Official Instruction Manual.
* TakeAThirdOption:
** The Joneses' first major hurdle when providing for their gender-neutral child: what do they give X when all of the children's clothes and toys are gender-specific? The Official Instruction Manual firmly recommends that they "buy plenty of everything".
** When the Parent's Association demands that X go through a rigorous ''x''amination, their ''x''pected outcomes for X are either to be determined as a boy or girl and expected to conform as such, or be labeled as a "mixed-up misfit" and ''x''pelled. [[spoiler: X ultimately affirms to be neither boy or girl, and is simply too secure and well-adjusted to be considered a "mixed-up misfit" either.]]
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler: The experts at X's examination shed these when marveled by X's self-security in spite of being neither boy or girl.]]
* WhamLine:
-->In our opinion, young X here... [[spoiler: is just about the ''least'' mixed-up child we've ever examined!]]
* XMakesAnythingCool: Although we probably wouldn't recommend using it to name your own non-binary child.
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