Infants: Gender Identity

At birth, infants are typically assigned a gender identity that closely corresponds with their genitalia, male or female. Society classifies the attached genitalia to predetermine the socialization a child’s receives whether consistent with masculinity or femininity gender roles. Society uses the previously mentioned to differentiate a person’s sexual orientation without consulting or providing a child the opportunity to make that distinction on their own. The human biology infers two possibilities of gender; XX chromosomes identify females at birth and an XY chromosome determines males at birth. Infants that are born with indecisive sexual anatomy that fails to align with either male or female reproductive systems identify as intersex. Intersex is assigned to individuals that were born with genitalia that was inaccurately determined by the doctor at birth. Prior to viewing the intersex clip, I honestly had no idea that this was a possibility. Seriously, medical doctors undergo many years of medical school and were assigning mistaken gender identities to infants at birth during the 1940’s. More importantly, some contemporary professional practicing medicine still possesses the inability to identify children’s gender at birth appropriately. These individuals that endure the …show more content…
Intersex gender identity provides societal members a reference group for others to be aware of that have experienced a mistaken identity at the hands of medical professionals. It is important to note, that the people who identify as intersex are no different from the individuals who are assigned male or female at birth. It may come as a shock to most, but the people that identify as intersex eat, sleep and work jobs just like every other person in society. Well, at least we hope that to be