WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Sex ‘Assigned’ at Birth?
How many genders are there? Two, male and female, or well, how many would you like there to be, today? The latter attitude is reflective of the only-recently-heard view that sex and gender are “assigned” at birth and can thus be changed later in life. In a word, they are a choice, not a condition.
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The Colson Center’s Joseph Backholm has no such illusions about these matters and he explains three reality-based reasons sex and gender are not something every individual can choose — and then re-choose — at will.
But what about individuals who are born “intersex”? Backholm explains: “A baby born with ambiguous genitalia is not evidence of a new sex within the human species. How do we know this? Because the disorders of sexual development do not create a new chromosome, a new sex hormone, or a new type of genitalia.”
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