Knowra Sex assignment Sex assignment Sex assignment is the designation of a person as male or female, usually recorded at birth from observed anatomy. It is distinct from gender identity and may be revised in light of later information or personal circumstances.
Sexual differentiation : The developmental processes through which reproductive anatomy and related traits become sexually differentiated. It produces many of the anatomical traits used in newborn sex designation.
Sex characteristics : Physical and physiological traits associated with sex, including anatomy, hormones, and chromosomes. Observed traits provide the usual basis for a birth designation.
Sex marker : A letter or category in a record or identity document that indicates a person's recorded sex or gender. It is the administrative form through which a designation appears in many documents.
Intersex rights : Human rights claims concerning the equality, bodily autonomy, and dignity of intersex people. Disputes over early designation and related interventions are central to these claims.
External genitalia : The visible reproductive structures on the outside of the body. Their appearance is commonly used to designate sex at birth.
Gender identity : A person's internal sense of their own gender, such as woman, man, both, or neither. It is not determined by the sex designation recorded at birth.
Medicalization of intersex traits : The treatment of intersex variations primarily as medical conditions requiring clinical management. Clinical norms around sex categories can shape responses to atypical newborn anatomy.
Bodily autonomy : The right and capacity to make decisions about one's own body and medical care. It frames ethical concerns about irreversible interventions made before a person can consent.
Intersex : A term for variations in sex characteristics that do not fit typical definitions of female or male bodies. Variations in genital anatomy can make a birth designation less straightforward.
Gender : Socially shaped identities, roles, expressions, and relations associated with femininity, masculinity, and other positions. It is related to sex designation but encompasses more than a recorded marker.
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