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☆ Opinion | The Language of Gender Identity
  + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “The Problem With Saying ‘Sex Assigned at Birth,’” by Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, April 3):Mr. Byrne and Ms. Hooven argue that use of “assigned sex” terminology “creates doubt about a biological fact when there shouldn’t be any.” But sex characteristics are not “a biological fact”; they are rather a series of facts — anatomical, hormonal and genetic — that are not always in alignment. The term “sex assignment” derives from the medical literature of the 1940s and 1950s, in which physicians grappled with what was then called “hermaphroditism” and is now called “intersex” or “D.S.D.,” for disorders or differences of sex development. To conclude that the words “assigned at birth” are needless is to deny the complexity of biological sex and to erase both the history of intersex conditions and the embodied reality of the people who are born and live with them. Barbara M. ChubakNew YorkThe writer is an associate professor of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Persons: Alex Byrne, Carole K, Byrne, Hooven, Barbara M, Chubak Organizations: Icahn School of Medicine Locations: York, Mount Sinai
☆ A Person’s Sex Is Not Assigned - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Alex Byrne | Carole K. Hooven | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a person’s sex, some medical and camp forms these days ask for “sex assigned at birth” or “assigned sex” (often in addition to gender identity). The shift to “sex assigned at birth” may be well intentioned, but it is not progress. We are not against politeness or expressions of solidarity, but “sex assigned at birth” can confuse people and creates doubt about a biological fact when there shouldn’t be any. Nor is the phrase called for because our traditional understanding of sex needs correcting — it doesn’t.
Persons: “, ” Organizations: American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, Cleveland
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