In the article containing excerpts of her book, Anne Fausto-Sterling emphasizes that there are children born outside of dimorphism. Using only the two gender identities are not sufficient in identifying the genders of every individual. She writes at length about her belief that the two-sexes, male and female, should no longer be accepted as the only human forms. In fact, the two socially and medically dominant classifications should be expanded to include genital ambiguity as normal, suggesting that we replace our two-sex system with a five-sex standard method. Her argument is that five-sexes should be the predominant opinion: male, female, “herms”, “merms”, and ferms”. Fausto-Sterling states certain statistics as facts, indicating the approximate
