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13331694, i think 'assigned' is a misnomer in many cases also and ...
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Thu May-09-19 04:20 PM
it undermines those who really were "assigned." i remember in college reading about how many interstitial sex babies there were, it was astonishingly common (we are talking 1 in 2000 type common, which is quite common really). in some cases there was intervention to sort of steer the child biologically toward a certain gender (including surgery), and i would consider that "assigned" gender. but the majority of babies are not "assigned" a gender in any medical or biological sense, and to posit that they are undermines the significant minority that does have that experience.