Birth certificate says sex unknown

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Many parents find out the sex of their child before the baby is born.

What's a 'theyby'?

Not a boy. Not a girl.

Instead of "boy" or "girl", gender neutral babies are known as "theybies". "Theybies" refer to babies without a known sex.

"We did not assign a sex at birth which means when they were born, they had genitals, we know what they are, we just chose to acknowledge that those genitals don't indicate anything about gender," Dennis said.

Sparrow's parents decided to raise their baby "gender-neutral," meaning Sparrow will decide gender when older. Even Sparrow's birth certificate says sex-unknown.

Ari, one of Sparrow's parents, says the family was inspired to raise Sparrow without a known gender after their older child, Hazel, discovered gender around the age of four.

Sparrow's family isn't alone. A closed Facebook group called "Parenting Theybies" has roughly 350 members. Ari is also a prominent voice in the gender-neutral parenting community.

"There's no way this can go wrong," Dennis said. "People will be like 'Oh the child will be confused!' No. If gender is really something in you, then no one's going to change that."