Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation

Assistant Professor Carl Streed Jr

When a human is born, it’s a health practitioner’s job to assign a ‘male’ or ‘female’ label based on a look at the baby’s genitalia.

But sex designation is not as simple as a glance and then a check of one box or another on a birth certificate. Instead, the overwhelming evidence shows that sex is not binary.