Why British couple are hiding their baby’s gender

Friends and family asked to refer to 17-month-old as ‘they’

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Hobbit Humphrey and Jake England-Johns discuss their decision on BBC One’s Inside Out West

A British couple have gone public about their bid to raise their child gender-neutral by keeping its sex secret from even close family.

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