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“Assigned female”[0] just means that their original birth certificate has an ‘F’ in the sex field, normally assigned based on observed physical characteristics.

“Assigned female”[0] just means that their original birth certificate has an ‘F’ in the sex field, normally assigned based on observed physical characteristics. It also generally implies that everyone assumed this was correct (with the associated gender roles etc) until the person began expressing a gender identity independently—in this case a different one, though for most people they tend to be the same. In this case 'slg is also using it to imply that the person’s natural physical characteristics also match their assigned sex. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment

leephillips 5y ago
This doesn’t really make sense. The hospital personnel who record the sex of the baby aren‘t saying anything about “gender roles”. They’re simply recording the sex of the baby. It will only be incorrect in extremely rare circumstances of external anatomy not being indicative of sex. (And the field in the birth certificate is for sex, not gender. That would make no sense.) EDIT: It’s rather underhanded to abuse the edit button to silently correct your comment, causing replies to not quite make sense. That’s why people here signal that they’ve edited a comment in cases like this.
- wolfgang42 5y ago
  I didn’t say that the hospital personnel were involved in the gender role—the parents would generally take the lead on that one, but they usually use the medical advice as a basis. Yes, it’s unusual for all these aspects (assigned sex at birth, phenotype, gender identity, and so on) to not match, but it’s useful to have separate terms for the cases in which they don’t—as in the case of our hypothetical 14-year-old. (Thanks for the correction on the field name; edited.) (EDIT to your edit: I changed the text on that comment and then spent a couple extra minutes rephrasing this comment before I posted it. Probably I should have done those in the other order, sorry about that.)

leephillips 5y ago

This doesn’t really make sense. The hospital personnel who record the sex of the baby aren‘t saying anything about “gender roles”. They’re simply recording the sex of the baby. It will only be incorrect in extremely rare circumstances of external anatomy not being indicative of sex. (And the field in the birth certificate is for sex, not gender. That would make no sense.) EDIT: It’s rather underhanded to abuse the edit button to silently correct your comment, causing replies to not quite make sense. That’s why people here signal that they’ve edited a comment in cases like this.

wolfgang42 5y ago
I didn’t say that the hospital personnel were involved in the gender role—the parents would generally take the lead on that one, but they usually use the medical advice as a basis. Yes, it’s unusual for all these aspects (assigned sex at birth, phenotype, gender identity, and so on) to not match, but it’s useful to have separate terms for the cases in which they don’t—as in the case of our hypothetical 14-year-old. (Thanks for the correction on the field name; edited.) (EDIT to your edit: I changed the text on that comment and then spent a couple extra minutes rephrasing this comment before I posted it. Probably I should have done those in the other order, sorry about that.)