[dillondoyle]

assignment does not always happen before birth.

There are lots of kids born with ambiguous & differing genitals where parents & doctors make an assignment for that kid outside the womb.

also ignores a lot of different chromosomal and hormonal differences outside the norm.

[foverzar]

> There are lots of kids born with ambiguous & differing genitals where parents & doctors make an assignment for that kid outside the womb.

This sounds suspicious. I don't really believe that the ambiguity is actually that ambiguous to the point where it's actually hard to decide.

Or that such "assignments" can be made without ending with suicide.

It's not like biological sex is actually defined by visible members - it's a chromosome thing.

[yosame]

> Or that such "assignments" can be made without ending with suicide.

Well for one, it'd cause dysphoria, not necessarily suicide. Some people feel bad their whole lives without killing themselves.

But the main point is, that's why doctors shouldn't do these assignments. Why on earth should the decision of what sex characteristics to have be up to anyone but yourself.

[foverzar]

> But the main point is, that's why doctors shouldn't do these assignments

Do they ACTUALLY do them, though? I've read about some freakish case when a child was mutilated during circumcision, and the doctor had advised to bring up the child as a girl, but I am having a hard time believing that this is a common practice, that just doesn't pass my sanity check.

> Why on earth should the decision of what sex characteristics to have be up to anyone but yourself.

It's not like anyone actually "decides" these things, but rather has to live with what nature gave you. One can surely try to cosmetically "fix" this and strive for social acceptance, but this won't change medical facts. And theoretically it shouldn't, if we actually distinct between biological sex and gender.

It seems to me that most of all the confusion and the fixation on genitalia comes from people not actually truly believing gender to be an actual social construct.

Otherwise, HRT would be sufficient in 99.9% times and SRS wouldn't even be a thing.

[snoozing]

>There are lots of kids born with ambiguous & differing genitals where parents & doctors make an assignment for that kid outside the womb.

I don’t think most people would argue against medically intersex people identifying outside of traditional norms, which I would imagine is a small subset of people identifying as trans.