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Emily Ratjakowski Won’t Force ‘Gender-Based Preconceptions’ Onto Her Baby

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Emily Ratjakowski Won’t Force ‘Gender-Based Preconceptions’ Onto Her Baby
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Model, progressive activist, and socialist Bernie Sanders supporter Emily Ratjakowski is pregnant with her first child and will not be announcing their gender until the child is 18 and can choose for themselves.

“When my husband and I tell friends that I’m pregnant, their first question after ‘Congratulations’ is almost always ‘Do you know what you want?’ We like to respond that we won’t know the gender until our child is 18 and that they’ll let us know then,” Ratjakowski penned in an essay for Vogue.

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