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Jane Haist
Jane Haist (born March 16, 1949, in St. Catharines, Ontario) was a female discus thrower and shot putter, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She is best known for winning two gold medals for Canada at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in the women's discus throw and in the women's shot put event. She was national U.S. collegiate champion in the discus representing the University of Tennessee in 1977.
which "makes sex/ gender the central component of how kids think of themselves, understand their social group, and view themselves through their parents’ eyes." As Jane Ward, professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside, writes in her chapter of the book "Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices", even parents who hope to redefine "boyhood" or "girlhood" (such as through allowing a "tomboy" daughter, or dressing a son in dresses, for example),