The Role Of Gender In Intersex

At a very young age we are conditioned by society to believe that we all fall under specific stereotypes presented to us as early as birth when we are blatantly declared a sex. Either “boy” or “girl”, and in a majority of households there is no place for anything in between. What people refuse to acknowledge is how mysterious sex actually is to the scientific community, aka the professionals. The more that we advance in the science of anatomy the more we figure out that there are more than just a few categories for an individual to fall under in terms of sex, the more we are beginning to question what defines us in terms of gender. For instance what would you classify an individual that anatomically identifies as intersex, intersex being someone that has both male and female sex organs. If someone appears as more of a man than woman but has both organs, or vise versa, what gender does society see them as and what if they don’t want to be classified? …show more content…
But in another instance in which the individual is given the choice to change their assigned sex you end up with the same question. Gender Identity Disorder, most recently renamed Gender Dysphoria, is the diagnosis assigned to a person that does not feel as if their sex correlates with how they feel or act. It is often thought of as a phase that children go through while growing up and trying to find themselves. Parents will almost always try to convince or force their children into acting as the sex that they appear to society as, which can lead to behavioral and emotional issues in the child, that also lead the way to self operating in an attempt to change sex or at later ages