Yahoo News Russell Brand says he will let daughter decide her own gender
Comedian Russell Brand has suggested that he will dress his daughter in gender neutral clothing so that she has the freedom to decide what gender she wants to become.
Speaking about the birth of his daughter Mabel with fiancee Laura Gallacher, 27, Brand said that he wanted to see “how she formulates”, adding that becoming a father had changed the way he looked at gender.
“Now that I have these very important women in my life I have re-evaluated the way that I unconsciously looked at gender, because now I've got a daughter I think 'wow, I don't necessarily need to dress her in clothes that are indicative of her gender',” he told ITV’s This Morning programme yesterday.
"Why would you? I've become quite sensitive to that and aware of it."
The admission is not the first time Brand has suggested raising a genderless child, having told Jonathan Ross in November last year that he and Ms Gallacher were still undecided on the matter.
“We don’t know the gender,” he said at the time. “I may not even impose a gender upon it, let the child grow up and be whatever the hell it is.”
Discussing how parenthood had changed his outlook on life, he added: "I think you have to evolve because it's quite an abrupt and sudden change, one minute you don't have a baby and then suddenly there is a new relative who lives in your house, not a moderate or minor relative like an uncle, a full-on person who is dependent on you.
"When I first saw my daughter I felt like some latent part of myself got switched on in that moment, something to do with my own femininity and fathomless love that I had previously speculated upon but not accessed."
