One of the concessions to introducing a gender perspective to medicine has been the necessity, in gender studies terms, to adopt the reductionist approach of representing sex and gender to binary concepts. Binary (usually oppositional) concepts imply that things are only one or the other; black or white for example. In medicine, we like things to be as black or white as possible. Many of the social sciences, however, embrace the concept of an infinite range of grey. In terms of sex and gender, the binary concepts are male/female and masculine/feminine.
Most doctors and medical students can tell that sex is not always male or female. Occasionally babies are born with indeterminate genitalia which means that from the outside you can’t tell whether
Most doctors and medical students can tell that sex is not always male or female. Occasionally babies are born with indeterminate genitalia which means that from the outside you can’t tell whether