They think that changing medical practice by legal ruling is not ideal, and would like to see more data collected on outcomes such as quality of life and sexual function to help decide the best course of action for people with DSDs — something that researchers are starting to do.
lab rats before being allowed to just live
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has softened social attitudes to sexual orientation and gender.
there is a clear difference between acceptance of someone who is deciding they are in the wrong body and righting their orientation as they see fit vs. someone who is born both because one is viewed as a "choice" by society while the other is viewed as "wrong" because society has such a negative and ableist view on and against genetic disorders
This pressure has meant that people born with clear DSDs often undergo surgery to 'normalize' their genitals. Such surgery is controversial because it is usually performed on babies, who are too young to consent, and risks assigning a sex at odds with the child's ultimate gender identity — their sense of their own gender.
what I said at the beginning + plus previous paragraph
chimaera
i feel like this is kind of a hurtful term to use because the chimera in mythology is a creature with a variation of lion's head, goats body (and sometimes head), and serpent's tail because it's basically calling one a freak of nature
anatomical sex seems to be at odds with their chromosomal or gonadal sex
so there's now anatomical, chromosomal, gonadal, and hormonal
Gene mutations affecting gonad development can result in a person with XY chromosomes developing typically female characteristics, whereas alterations in hormone signalling can cause XX individuals to develop along male lines.
gene therapy/development vs hormone therapy/development
The sex hormones also dictate the development of the external genitalia, and they come into play once more at puberty, triggering the development of secondary sexual characteristics such as breasts or facial hair
which can now be influenced by hormone therapy today as someone may be born with an excess or deficiency of hormones
Five weeks into development, a human embryo has the potential to form both male and female anatomy.
if we're talking full science fiction, this would be the stage where people would probably be able to influence the gender of their child because they'd be able to do so before genetics naturally chose for them
Few legal systems allow for any ambiguity in biological sex, and a person's legal rights and social status can be heavily influenced by whether their birth certificate says male or female
more states today are cracking down on these rules and in some states schools are required to out students who identify as trans and/or non-binary to officials/parents/guardians
the binary structure
hence the non-binary gender/sex identification
Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female
Because males carry XY and females carry XX so birthing males comes from the male DNA as the women have no way of replicating it without. Females are the base outline, the "blue print".
Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs) — often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl
it should not be the parent's choice on how to raise the child as it could lead to the parents not telling the child they were born intersex and possibly lead to said child having gender dysphoria when they are older